By Kamil Opeyemi
With various stakeholders in Africa and beyond seeking solutions to the Niger crisis, coup leaders on Thursday announced they have formed their new government. The coup leaders stated this while reading out a decree on the country’s national television on Thursday.
Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine will lead the 21-member government, with generals from the new military governing council heading the defence and interior ministries.
This was just as top diplomats from the United Nations, African Union, and the Economic Community of West African States will Thursday (today) storm Abuja, the nation’s capital, to take major decisions at an Extraordinary Summit on political development in the Niger Republic.
Recall that the Niger military junta had disconnected diplomatic ties with Nigeria after the ECOWAS envoy sent to the country to broker peace failed to achieve a result.
Last month, a military junta toppled Niger’s democratically elected President, Mohamed Bazoum.
Today, tension has continued to mount in the West African region.