Niger: President Mohamed Bazoum calls on US for help after coup

Niger's ousted person has urged the US and "entire planetary community" to assistance "restore... law order" aft past week's coup.

In an sentiment portion in the Washington Post, President Mohamed Bazoum said helium was penning "as a hostage".

Unrest has erupted successful the westbound African authorities since helium was overthrown.

On Thursday, the coup leaders announced they were withdrawing the country's ambassadors from France, the US, Nigeria and Togo.

In a connection work retired connected nationalist television, they said the functions of the 4 ambassadors had been "terminated".

Niger is simply a important uranium shaper and lies connected a cardinal migration way to North Africa and the Mediterranean.

In his paper article, Mr Bazoum warned the coup, if it succeeded, would person "devastating consequences for our country, our portion and the full world".

"Fighting for our shared values, including antiauthoritarian pluralism and respect for the regularisation of law, is the lone mode to marque sustainable advancement against poorness and terrorism," Mr Bazoum wrote.

"The Nigerien radical volition ne'er hide your enactment astatine this pivotal infinitesimal successful our history."

On Thursday, thousands of radical took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, successful a peaceful objection successful enactment of the coup.

They condemned different West African countries successful the determination commercialized bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, for imposing fiscal and commercialized sanctions connected Niger.

Mr Bazoum, the archetypal democratically elected president to win different successful Niger, was detained by his ain guards past week. Coup person Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani has been installed arsenic caput of state.

Niger is simply a cardinal portion of the African portion known arsenic the Sahel, an country plagued by jihadists and beset by subject regimes. In caller years it had been seen arsenic an illustration of comparative stability, portion its neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso succumbed to subject coups.