President Biden on Thursday called for the immediate release of Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, who’s been detained since being ousted by a military coup last week.
“I call for President Bazoum and his family to be immediately released, and for the preservation of Niger’s hard-earned democracy,” Biden said in a statement commemorating Niger’s independence day. Thursday marked the 63rd anniversary of Niger’s formal independence from France.
The US has backed threats from a bloc of West African nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to use force if Bazoum is not reinstated by this Sunday.
Any intervention would likely involve the US, as there are about 1,100 US troops in the country and a major drone base. There are also about 1,500 French troops in the country. The US has yet to label the situation a coup since that would require cutting off aid to Niger.
“In this critical moment, the United States stands with the people of Niger to honor our decades-long partnership rooted in shared democratic values and support for civilian-led governance,” Biden said.
The Niger junta is standing firm in the face of pressure and sanctions from other West African nations, which has involved Nigeria cutting off power to Niger. Niger’s coup leader Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani has called the sanctions “inhumane” and said Niger’s military won’t cave to the pressure.
Tchiani said the military “rejects these sanctions altogether and refuses to give in to any threats, wherever they come from. We refuse any interference in the internal affairs of Niger.”
While the junta is facing pressure from ECOWAS, it has received support from its neighbors Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea. All three nations have been suspended from ECOWAS after their own military coups. Burkina Faso and Mali have warned ECOWAS that intervening in Niger would be considered a “declaration of war” against them, signaling intervention could spark a wider regional conflict.
President Biden Calls for the Immediate Release of Niger’s President, and the whole world laughs and laughs and laughs at Biden. Idiot Joe said “I am going to make America respected again”. And once again the whole world laughs and laughs and laughs again. Just go sit in the corner Joe and poop your pants.
He already did. It does stink.
Niger calls for the pre-emptive pardon of Trump.
Over the last few days there’s been reports that France is seriously considering sending in troops to quell the uprising.
This is their colony, not ours, so our actual intervention instead of France is unlikely.
We are talking about importing Kenyans soldiers/mercenaries to put down Haiti’s mess in our hemisphere so it’s doubtful we will step in France’s mess over there.
It’s their gold mines, not ours.
They ain’t France’s gold mines, either, until France steals them back. It sounds like Niger’s independence was conditional at best.
Well, they helped bombing Libya, why not Niger, it is only to protect our boy, get him back in power. Smart politics. And Libya is so much better off than before the NATO bombings. /s
Release our puppet, we don’t have another replacement.
What this country really needs is a 12-Step program for Politicians. Not a joke.
Step 1: HONESTY. We admitted that we were powerless over our power-seeking, warmongering and money-grubbing — that our political lives had become singularly about acquiring money and power no matter how many lives were displaced, destroyed or dead as a consequence.
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Biden would not agree, he still believes more war is best.
There is not a single honorable head of state in NATO with Orban and some minor nations heads of states the exceptions.
They have no honor, no integrity and no conscience.
“President Biden Calls for the Immediate Release of Niger’s President The US has backed a threat from other West African nations that they would intervene if President Bazoum wasn’t reinstated”
America colonizing Africa in 2023. That will not play well with people who have been oppressed for 500 years.
What will Joey Biden do? He lost in Afghanistan and is getting his tail kicked in Ukraine. Will he look for salvation by using drones to blow up defenseless aboriginal tribal people. That is about all America is good for anymore anyway!
Demented President Biden a man with regime change expertise is doing the smart thing with Nuland to support another regime change in Africa because they are so successful to do another coup. Marcon can be thankful Biden helps to protect the Uranium rights in Niger/s
Not every condemnation from Washington is part of a plan. When they condemn the regimes in Burma (I’ll still call it that), Nicaragua and Niger, it doesn’t have to scheming, but simply because these regimes are absolutely awful.
(In the case of Nicaragua’s Ortega he has been condemned by fellow leftist heads of state in Central America and by the social democrats in Spain. He imprisoned all the top opposition leaders and banned them from running in the latest election, he banned the opposition parties from campaigning, and his people completely controlled the election. He is hanging on tooth and claw because if he’d ever lose his presidential immunity, he’d immediately be arrested for killing hundreds of student protesters.)
The Somoza’s decades of family dictatorship was so much better than Ortega. The Somoza men were our men, the best that could happen to the Nicaraguans, they were much better off with the Somoza dictators. Ortega is bad for the US, just like Putin is bad for the US, and Yeltsin was the best, he was Clinton’s man allowing him to pilfer the wealth of Russia.
Biden has only one goal, he wants to be reelected just like all the politicians even 90 years old and older. They step over dead bodies to get there.
Biden is ready to use African proxies, just like Ukraine, and Taiwan and African vassals, coercion and extortions still work.
“I call for Julian Assange to be immediately released, and for the preservation of America’s hard-earned First Amendment.”