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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13231
EXTERNAL ACTION / Niger

Deeply concerned by military coup, EU calls for President Mohamed Bazoum’s immediate release

As soon as news of the attempted military coup in Niger by part of the presidential guard broke on the evening of Wednesday, 26 July, the European Union joined the African Union and ECOWAS in condemning it and expressing its full support for President Mohamed Bazoum, who was elected in February 2021.

On Thursday, 27 July, he and his wife were still being held in the presidential palace by the mutineers who, late the previous evening, had suspended the [country’s] institutions and...

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