The Latest Breaking News from Abdourahmane Tchiani

Move is latest sign the countries are moving away from traditional regional and Western allies following spate of coups.

The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have ruled out returning to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize regional efforts to revert coups and curb the violence spreading across the region

The West African bloc ECOWAS has rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democratic rule, with a commissioner describing the slow timeline as a provocation

The U.N. is spending over 20 times more money than usual on fuel for generators to keep millions of vaccines in Niger from spoiling due to incessant power cuts

Demonstrators chant slogans against former colonial power France and ECOWAS after military action threat.

An official present at talks between Niger’s mutinous soldiers and a delegation from West Africa’s regional bloc tells The Associated Press that talks Saturday yielded little and that the soldiers are under pressure from regional sanctions as they refuse to reinstate the country’s president whom they toppled nearly a month…

Abdourahmane Tchiani warns that any military intervention in Niger ‘will not be a walk in the park’ for those involved.

A local activist in Niger with ties to the military regime says the only way to avoid conflict in the country between mutinous soldiers that ousted the president and regional nations who are threatening an invasion to reinstate him, is to recognize the new regime as the ones in power

Analysts says key figures in new regime were underestimated as elected president remains confined to residence