An attempted coup was underway Wednesday in the fragile state of Niger, where members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, triggering a standoff with the army, sources said. The West African bloc ECOWAS and the African Union lashed what they called an « attempted coup d’etat, » a term echoed by a source close to Bazoum. FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza interviews a Niamey resident.
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