ECOWAS Intervention Threats: Niger closes it’s airspace as it warns of external attack.
Junta leader General Abdourahmane Tchiani speaks at the demonstration of coup supporters in Niamey on Aug. 6.
(Photographer: Mohamed Bazum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Niger’s junta partially closed the country’s airspace, warning of an attack by a “foreign power” as a deadline passed on Sunday to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.
The deadline, imposed by West African neighbors, threatened intervention, though there was no sign of any military action as yet.
Coup leaders said, however, action against them was unfolding.
