AA / Algeria / Hassan Jibril
Algeria warned on Tuesday of the consequences of a foreign military intervention to restore constitutional order in Niger, after reports indicating the intention of France and the Economic Community of African States West to use force to reinstall President Mohamed Bazoum in power.
In its press release, the Algerian diplomacy “calls for caution and restraint in the face of foreign military intervention intentions, intentions which are unfortunately not excluded and which are likely to be implemented, but which only represent vectors of complication and aggravation of the current crisis”.
The press release indicates that Algeria “renews its deep attachment to the return to constitutional order in Niger and to respect for the rule of law, just as the Algerian government reaffirms in this regard its support for Mr. Mohamed Bazoum as legitimate President of the Republic of Niger”.
And to add: “This return to constitutional order must be achieved by peaceful means which would prevent brotherly Niger and the entire region from worsening insecurity and instability, and our peoples more vicissitudes and tragedies”.
On Wednesday, the head of the Presidential Guard, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, led a military coup that toppled the regime of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been detained in the presidential palace ever since.
The coup was widely condemned by the international community, which demanded that the democratically elected Bazoum be restored to office, while threatening to sever relations, cut off aid and even intervene by force. force “if necessary”, according to the conclusions of an extraordinary summit of the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which was held on Sunday.
On Monday, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna denied accusations that her country intended to “intervene militarily” in Niger, telling local channel BFM that “it’s not true”.
She was thus responding to the Nigerien putschist military council which, on the same day, accused the Bazoum government of having granted a mandate to France to free the latter by military force.
On Monday, authorities in Burkina Faso and Mali warned in a joint statement that any military intervention in Niger to reinstall President Mohamed Bazoum in power would amount to “a declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali”.
*Translated from Arabic by Mourad Belhaj
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