{"id":111800,"date":"2023-08-07T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/?p=111800"},"modified":"2023-08-07T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T06:12:48","slug":"niger-waits-for-west-african-blocs-response-after-junta-rejects-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/news\/commodities\/niger-waits-for-west-african-blocs-response-after-junta-rejects-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger ch\u1edd \u0111\u1ee3i ph\u1ea3n \u1ee9ng c\u1ee7a kh\u1ed1i T\u00e2y Phi sau khi ch\u00ednh quy\u1ec1n t\u1eeb ch\u1ed1i t\u1ed1i h\u1eadu th\u01b0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIAMEY (Reuters) &#8211; Niger was waiting on Monday for a response from the West African regional bloc after coup leaders in Niamey ignored a deadline to reinstate the ousted president &#8211; a move the bloc has warned could lead it to authorise a military intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said it will issue a statement on its next steps in response to the junta&#8217;s refusal to cave in to external pressure to stand down by Sunday following the July 26 power grab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bloc has taken a hard stance on the region&#8217;s seventh coup in three years. Given its uranium and oil riches and its pivotal role in a war with Islamist militants, Niger also holds importance for the U.S., Europe, China and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday as the deadline expired, the junta closed its airspace until further notice, citing the increased threat of military intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An escalation in the standoff with ECOWAS would further destabilize one of the world&#8217;s poorest regions, which is in the grip of a hunger crisis and battling an insurgency that has killed thousands and forced millions to flee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rate-now\"><span id=\"rate-mypost111800\"><\/span> <span id=\"rate-points\"> 0<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery('#rate-mypost111800').raty({\n\t\t\t\thalfShow : true,\n\t\t\t\thalf: true,readOnly: true,score: 0,\n\t\t\t\tpath: \"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/userpro-rating\/images\/\"\n\t\t\t\t});<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIAMEY (Reuters) &#8211; Niger was waiting on Monday for a response from the West African regional bloc after coup leaders in Niamey ignored a deadline to reinstate the ousted president &#8211; a move the bloc has warned could lead it to authorise a military intervention. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":111801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commodities-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investmentbell.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}