Niger's Ousted President Bazoum Complains About Bad Treatment He Receives

Ousted President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum has complained bitterly.

Lamenting, Bazoum said helium is being kept isolated and forced to devour dry atom and pasta by the subject junta who overthrew him and are refusing to bow to planetary unit to cede power.

In a bid of substance messages to a person reportedly seen by CNN, Bazoum said helium has been “deprived of each quality contact” since Friday, with nary 1 supplying him nutrient oregon medicine.

Bazoum said helium has been surviving without energy for a week, a normal occurrence for each Nigeriens aft Nigeria chopped disconnected electrical power successful effect to the coup.

Bazoum says each of the perishable nutrient helium was supplied with has since gone bad, and helium is present eating adust pasta and rice.

Though denied the accidental to talk with acting US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland during her sojourn to Niamey, the Nigerien capital, connected Monday, Bazoum has been successful interaction with the extracurricular world.  

Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, the premier curate successful Bazoum’s government, told French TV that the president was successful bully spirits contempt being held successful a “catastrophic situation.”

Nuland’s gathering connected Monday with elder coup leaders lasted much than 2 hours, consisting of “extremely frank and astatine times rather difficult” conversations. A Tuesday face-to-face gathering that was expected to instrumentality spot successful Niamey betwixt the junta and representatives from the United Nations, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was canceled astatine short notice.

Junta leaders said successful a missive that postponement of the gathering was “necessary” in “this ambiance of threatened aggression against Niger.”

However, Mahamadou, Bazoum’s premier minister, told French state-funded broadcaster TV5-Monde that the junta would similar to continue dialog with ECOWAS, the bloc that has been starring the determination response to the governmental situation successful Niger.

ECOWAS leaders are owed to conscionable connected Thursday successful Nigeria to sermon the coup, though specifics regarding the gathering stay unclear.

The determination bloc had fixed the junta 1 week to instrumentality to their barracks and reinstall Bazoum, but that deadline came and went connected Sunday without immoderate change.