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Niger coup presents a diplomatic dilemma for the West African bloc whose new leadership is keen to entrench a new order.

France will "very soon" start to evacuate its nationals from Niger, where a coup last week has unleashed anti-French protests. Meanwhile, France's foreign minister has denied there are any plans for military intervention.

In tonight's edition: Just days after being arrested at home, Senegal's opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been charged with fomenting insurrection and had his party dissolved. Also, France has denied accusations from Niger's military junta that it wants to intervene militarily to reinstate the president deposed in a coup last…

The West African nation Niger is under military rule following a coup in which President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown and held captive by members of his own guard.

As the world condemns the coup in Niger, analysts say the West still needs a presence there for an eye on the Sahel.

The situation in Niger remained fluid on Thursday, a day after members of the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum at the presidential palace in Niamey. FRANCE 24 spoke with Danielle Resnick, a political scientist specialising in sub-Saharan Africa at the Brookings Institution, about how a military coup could affect…

Niger plotters cited worsening insecurity in their takeover speech, a go-to reason for recent coups in the Sahel.

West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official said Tuesday that’s just "a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity."

In France, pan-African influencers are gaining more and more followers on social media. Advocating a radical anti-Western ideology, some of them claim responsibility for the recent coups in Mali and Burkina Faso. Their narrative is similar to that of the Kremlin, which is trying to place its pawns on the…