Niger Republic Cuts Ties With Nigeria Over Failed Peace Talks

Niger Republic military junta has cut ties with Nigeria after peace talks between the two countries failed. 

This is coming even as the Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS tries to resolve the ongoing leadership crisis in the country.

READ ALSO: ECOWAS Mediators Leave Niger Without Meeting Junta Leader 

Recall that ECOWAS had issued a seven-day ultimatum to the military junta to reinstate the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Thursday sent a high-powered delegation to the country to meet with the coup leaders.

The delegation led by General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) only met with representatives of the junta, adding that Niger has severed ties with Nigeria, Togo, France and the United States.

“The functions of the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors of the Republic of Niger” to France, Nigeria, Togo and the United States are terminated,” the paper said Radio France International quoted one of the coup leaders to have said on national television.

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