{"id":28649,"date":"2023-08-07T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/08\/07\/niger-coup-deadline-expires-air-space-closes-as-junta-refuses-to-reinstate-president\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:02:08","slug":"niger-coup-deadline-expires-air-space-closes-as-junta-refuses-to-reinstate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/08\/07\/niger-coup-deadline-expires-air-space-closes-as-junta-refuses-to-reinstate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger coup deadline expires: Air space closes as Junta refuses to reinstate president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Niger has closed its airspace, after defying a deadline &#8211; imposed by ECOWAS &#8211; to reinstate the democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. The West African regional bloc issued the ultimatum a week ago, demanding the generals relinquish power by midnight on Sunday, or face possible military action. In a statement, coup leaders said that any attempt to violate the country&rsquo;s airspace would be met with an &lsquo;energetic and immediate response&rsquo;.\u00a0FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Vedika Bahl and Charlotte Hughes explain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger has closed its airspace, after defying a deadline &#8211; imposed by ECOWAS &#8211; to reinstate the democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. The West African regional bloc issued the ultimatum a week ago, demanding the generals relinquish power by midnight on Sunday, or face possible military action. In a statement, coup leaders said that any attempt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}