The conflict's ripple effect on global food and fertilizer prices has hit these Sahelian countries particularly hard, making food scarcer and unaffordable, especially for women and their children.
United States on Tuesday formally declared the ousting of Niger's democratically-elected president a coup d'etat, more than two months after mutinous soldiers seized power
Niger's junta closed its airspace and regional countries closed border crossings as part of economic and travel sanctions, making it hard for people to leave
Mutinous soldiers in Niger are under pressure from regional sanctions as they refuse to reinstate the country's president whom they toppled nearly a month ago
Despite a top US general's assertion that a final decision is still weeks away, preparations for a potential US military pullout from Niger are already underway
President Mohamed Bazoum sits confined with his family in an unlit basement of his presidential compound, cut off from resupplies of food and from electricity and cooking gas by the junta that overthrew him, said Niger’s ambassador to US
The reason is that many of the powerful countries, including Russia, France, the USA, and China, are directly or indirectly involved in the evolving situation in Niger.
The junta also claimed that two central African countries are preparing for an invasion, but did not say which ones, and called on the country’s population to defend it