Hundreds of diplomatic passports of people close to the deposed president of Niger have been revoked

  The military government in Niger has revoked almost a thousand diplomatic passports that the overthrown president Mohamed Bazoum had issued and given them to officials and foreign citizens he had close relations with. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Niger, has issued an announcement through a letter that has spread on social networks, notifying its diplomatic embassies abroad about the cancellation of the passports. The letter explains that more than 990 diplomatic passports of former heads of institutions, ministers, parliamentarians, advisors and special assistants in the office of the president, the parliament and the cabinet have been revoked.

Mohamed Bazoum According to the report, about 50 of those passports were issued to foreign nationals, including those from France, England, Libya, the United States, Turkey and other West African countries. Earlier, Niger's military government revoked the diplomatic passports of five officials of the ousted government who were abroad. On July 26, Niger's presidential security forces removed President Mohamed Bazoum from power on suspicion of corruption, collaborating with Western countries and ignoring the poverty of the country's citizens. The Niger Army has rejected calls from the United Nations, Western countries and ECOWAS to return Bazoum to power.../