Coup

Following the failure of the peace negotiations between the representatives sent by the Economic Community of West African States, the military junta in the Niger Republic severed ties with Nigeria, France, and other nations on Friday. The ECOWAS team "arrived in Niamey with the aim of establishing a dialogue with the junta in order to obtain the return to constitutional order," Radio France International reported on Friday. The initial site interactions were favorable. But at night's end, the CNSP spoke through Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, the same man who had spoken on July 26 when the troops announced that they had…