U.S Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has called for the immediate release of Niger Republic President, Mohamed Bazoum.
Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the president was held in the presidential palace.
Blinken told a news conference in the New Zealand capital Wellington that “whether this constitutes a coup technically or not, I can’t say, that’s for the lawyers to say.
“However, what it clearly constitutes is an effort to seize power by force and to disrupt the constitution.’’
Blinken, therefore, called for Bazoum’s immediate release.
– Agency Report