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Coup leaders in Niger Republic have named Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the country’s new prime minister in a statement read out on national television.
Zeine previously served as Niger’s cabinet director and finance minister.
U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday diplomacy is the ‘preferred way’ to resolve the crisis in Niger as coup leaders held talks with a U.S envoy. Follow our blog to see how the day’s events unfold. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
Diplomacy is the best option for the international community to deal with the coup crisis in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday.
“Diplomacy is certainly the preferred way of resolving this situation,” he told French Radio RFI.
“It is ECOWAS’ current approach. It is our approach,” he said, referring to the West African bloc amid efforts to reinstate the ousted democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum, who was detained last week.
Blinken declined to comment on a possible withdrawal of US soldiers from Niger.