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Weekend: Growing international unease over Niger coup

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Growing international unease over Niger coup

30/07/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Growing international unease over Niger coup

EU suspends financial aid and security cooperation with Niger

The EU has suspended all security cooperation with Niger after the country's army took power in a coup. It comes shortly after the US declared its "unflagging support" for ousted president Mohamed Bazoum - seen as a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants. On Friday the head of the presidential guards unit Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani declared himself Niger's new leader. 

Also on the programme: a new documentary about life in Venezuela; and new research into adult imagination.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Agnes Callard, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago; and the author and broadcaster John Kampfner.

(Picture: General Abdourahmane Tiani, who was declared as the new head of state of Niger by leaders of a coup, arrives to meet with ministers. CREDIT: REUTERS/Balima Boureima)

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