Alliance of Sahel states outraged at EU demand to free Niger's president

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Alliance of Sahel states outraged at EU demand to free Niger's president  The European parliament voted last week to pass a resolution demanding the "immediate" release of Niger's former president Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted in a coup in 2023 and has been detained ever since. The Alliance of Sahel states reacted with indignation.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2026/03/20/alliance-of-sahel-states-outraged-at-eu-demand-to-free-nigers-president  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso were united in their outrage against the European Parliament on

00:08Thursday. The three alliance of Sahel states condemned a resolution voted by the parliament

00:14last week to demand the liberation of Niger's president, Mohamed Bersoum. Bersoum was president

00:21from 2021 to 2023, when he was ousted in a military coup. He was detained and has been

00:29under arrest ever since in Myanmar, Niger's capital. The new regime, a military junta led

00:36by General Abdurrahman Tiani, has so far refused to release him. The European Parliament's resolution

00:43asks for Bersoum's immediate and unconditional release, a demand that the Sahel states qualified

00:51as serious, deliberate and coordinated meddling in the business of a sovereign state.

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