Meanwhile, pro-coup protesters burnt French flags and attacked the French embassy in Niamey. Alongside the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union, ECOWAS imposed financial sanctions and closed borders in response to the junta’s coup that ousted democratic President Mohamed Bazoum (who has been photographed for the first time since the upheaval, smiling and in apparent good health during a meeting with the president of neighboring Chad). Niger faces sanctions after coup, junta attacks French embassy: The 15 member states of the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) called for constitutional order to be restored in Niger within a week, threatening force.
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