The Niger coup leaders take a mass bath and close the airspace with the end of the ultimatum

One of the leaders of the council, General Mohamed Toumba, has taken the floor to denounce the “hidden in the shadows who plot subversion against the progress of Niger” and to ensure that the military is “aware of their Machiavellian plan”. .

Toumba acted as spokesman for the coup leader, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, from whom he conveyed a message of encouragement: “We have not come this far to go back,” he indicated.. “The general has asked me to greet you, that the mobilization is up to the task, because he follows it live, and strongly demonstrates the support he has to change Niger,” he added during his brief speech, collected by the agency Nigerian ANP News.

The city is still in tension, awaiting ECOWAS's decision, after a night in which groups of young people have formed “vigilance units” in the capital to warn about possible “suspicious acts” in view of the possibility that produce an intervention.

Dozens of people have gathered since the weekend began in the main squares of the capital, after the military junta asked citizens to remain “alert” to the possibility of the presence of “spies and foreign forces.”

This group of volunteers, who belong to the committees in support of the military junta that called demonstrations these days in their favor, have established traffic controls at various roundabouts and entrances to the city, also carrying out searches in vehicles, according to reports. Several sources pointed to the German agency DPA.