Concerns about President Basoom’s health are isolated
Niger President Mohamed Bassoum, who was ousted in a July 26 coup, received a visit from his doctor this Saturday, still in isolation.
The European Union, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have expressed concern over Mohamed Basoom.
AFP
Nigerian President Mohamed Bassum visited his doctor on Saturday at his presidential residence in Niamey after the coup, according to one of his advisers, while a mediation of Nigerian religious leaders met with members of the military regime.
“The President of the Republic”, Mohamed Bassum, “visited his doctor today” and “brought him food”, as well as his son and his wife, who have been detained with him, confirmed the ousted president’s adviser in July. 26. “He is doing well under the circumstances,” he added.
Representatives of several organizations and countries allied with Niger before the coup expressed their concern over the conditions of detention and the health of the ousted president. African Union Commission President Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “deep concern” as the European Union (EU), US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed their concerns.
According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, who spoke to Mohamed Basoom, he described his family as “inhumane and brutal” without electricity or human contact, and he only eats pasta and rice. , according to US media outlet CNN.
Mediation
On the same day, Nigerian Muslim religious leaders arrived in Niamey to meet with military junta officials. According to Niger National Television, the religious leaders were welcomed by the newly appointed civilian Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Sain, and then by the head of the military regime, General Abdurahmane Diyani.
A source close to the delegation told AFP that this “mediation work” was carried out with the agreement of Nigerian President Tinubu, who is also the current head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). According to this source, its aim was to “ease tensions created by the prospect of military intervention by ECOWAS”.
It is a group led by Sheikh Bala Lau, the leader of Isala, a Salafist-inspired Islamist movement in Nigeria. The junta refused to host a joint delegation of ECOWAS, the African Union (AU) and the UN on Tuesday. This Nigerian mediation has continued in favor of resolving the crisis through ECOWAS diplomatic mechanisms, however after the agreement to deploy an intervention force to reinstate Mohammed Basoom in his operations.
The meeting was adjourned
On Saturday, a meeting of ECOWAS chiefs was scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana, to brief their leaders on the “best options” following their decision to activate and deploy their “standby force” to restore constitutional order in Niger. . According to regional military sources, a meeting was postponed indefinitely for “technical reasons”.
The timetable and terms of a possible West African military intervention have not been disclosed. But according to Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, whose country contributes to the force could intervene “as soon as possible”. According to one of Mohamed Basoom’s relatives, the military regime branded it a “threat” to attack him in the event of an armed intervention.
AFP
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