LONDON – Western governments are evacuating their citizens from Niger as tensions rise a week after a military coup deposed the African country’s elected president.
President Mohamed Bazoum is still under arrest by the soldiers answerable to General Abdourahamane Tiani, the former head of the presidential guard and leader of Niger’s newly-formed military junta.
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