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Trade between Niger and its neighbours in West Africa has been frozen since regional bloc Ecowas imposed sanctions on the landlocked country when military officers overthrew the elected president in late July. RFI reports from the border between Niger and Nigeria, where the closure has cut off crucial exchanges.

Ever since last month’s military coup in Niger, trade with neighbouring Nigeria and other West African countries has virtually stopped. FRANCE 24’s senior correspondents Catherine Norris Trent and Cyril Payen report from the border in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State, where only donkey carts, motorbikes and hawkers on foot are getting…

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Two dozen Nigerian security operatives were killed after a helicopter carrying dead and wounded soldiers from an evacuation mission in Niger state — 249 km north of Abuja —crashed on Monday, Al Jazeera reported. Read further on Dynamite news:

West African defence chiefs met in Ghana on Thursday to discuss a possible military intervention in Niger after coup leaders there ignored their deadline to step down. Nigeria has emerged as the strongest voice pushing for military action but all the ECOWAS leaders at the summit said diplomacy remains their…

A helicopter has crashed in the Nigerian state of Niger, killing more than two dozen officers, military authorities say.

Ecowas says it is ready to restore democracy and describes president Mohamed Bazoum as a hostage