{"id":82688,"date":"2023-08-30T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=82688"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T03:00:38","slug":"coup-algeria-demands-six-month-transition-period-from-niger-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/coup-algeria-demands-six-month-transition-period-from-niger-junta\/","title":{"rendered":"Coup: Algeria Demands Six-Month Transition Period From Niger Junta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Attaf, who recently toured West African states, said on Tuesday, \u201cMost of the countries we have talked to are against military intervention to end the crisis,\u201d as quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Mohamed Bazoum was ousted on July 26 in a military coup led by the former commander of Niger\u2019s presidential guard, Abdourahamane Tchiani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaders in the Economic Community of West African States said that they would keep all options on the table for a peaceful resolution to the crisis and ordered the activation of an ECOWAS standby force to restore constitutional order in Niger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algeria had repeatedly said it was against military intervention, pointing to the chaos that followed NATO action in Libya in 2011 during its uprising against longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algerian officials have spoken three times since the coup to the Niger military leader, who wants a transitional period of up to three years, Attaf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of its initiative, Algeria would seek a United Nations conference to restore constitutional order, propose guarantees for all sides in the crisis, and host a conference on development in the Sahel region, it said without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week Algerian state television said President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had denied permission to France for a possible military operation in Niger, but France denied it had sought any such permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Algerian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, has said the country is proposing an initiative to resolve the political crisis in neighbouring Republic of Niger with a six-month transition period led by a civilian. Attaf, who recently toured West African states, said on Tuesday, \u201cMost of the countries we have talked to are against military intervention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[5416,5415],"class_list":["post-82688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-algeria","tag-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82690,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82688\/revisions\/82690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}