Powder Keg Africa: Niger Military Junta Prevented Deposed President Bazoum From Escaping Detention – Lawyers Denounce He Is Now Being Held in Secret Location
Niger Military junta’s leader, Abdourahamani Tchiani, and deposed president Mohamed Bazoum.
While the world is occupied somewhere else, with all eyes on the Middle East, the ‘powder keg’ Africa continues with a lit fuse.
In Niger, the military junta went on TV to state that it had foiled an attempted escape by the deposed and incarcerated former President, Mohamed Bazoum.
A spokesman for the junta said that the former president ‘attempted to flee in the night with his family, cooks and security’.
As a result, Bazoum is now being held in a secret location.
Reuters reported:
“The junta said late on Thursday that Bazoum and his family, with the help of accomplices in the security forces,
