As we speak, Friday, a senior US official headed to West Africa in a brand new diplomatic try and resolve the month-long disaster in Niger, following the coup towards President Mohamed Bazoum.
Molly Vee, the highest US diplomat for sub-Saharan Africa, is scheduled to go to Nigeria, Ghana and Chad.
On July 26, the military in Niger overthrew President Bazoum, who had beforehand welcomed US and French forces to struggle extremists within the Sahel.
The US State Division stated in an announcement that in her journey, Fye will handle “the frequent objectives of preserving Niger’s hard-won democracy and attaining the rapid launch of President Bazoum, his household, and members of his authorities who’re unjustly detained.”
She added that Fye would additionally maintain consultations with senior officers in Benin, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Togo, all members of the Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS).
She will even go to Chad, the place, in response to the US State Division, she is going to focus on the violence in Sudan in addition to the political transition in Chad.
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