Niger, the US calls for the immediate release of President Bazoum

  US President Joe Biden has called for the immediate release of deposed Niger President Mohamed Bazoum, according to the White House in a statement. Bazoum was dismissed following the coup d'état carried out by the militants in Niger on 27 July. Biden's appeal took place on the 63rd anniversary of his independence in 1960.

  The French citizens in Niger, around 600 people, were warned with a message from the Paris embassy in the African country,... that "an evacuation operation by air is being prepared", which "will take place very soon". In the images, the round of the table at the interministerial meeting in Paris on the evacuation plan for French citizens from Niger. "Faced with the deteriorating security situation in Niger, and taking advantage of the relative calm in Niamey, an air evacuation operation from Niamey is being prepared", reads the message, which specifies that "it will take place very soon and in a very short time" .

Meanwhile, "the Italian Government has decided to offer our fellow citizens present in Niamey the possibility of leaving the city on a special flight to Italy", Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote on Twitter, underlining that the Embassy in the capital of Niger will remain open and operational, also to contribute to ongoing mediation efforts".