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Niger’s military-appointed PM visits Chad
N’Djamena, Chad – AFP
Niger’s military-appointed prime minister made a visit on Tuesday to neighbouring Chad, holding talks with his counterpart and President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, the Chadian government and Deby’s office said.
Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, a civilian appointed following the coup in Niger on July 26, arrived for a “working visit,” the government said on Facebook, while the presidency’s press office said he handed Deby a “message” from the head of the regime.
Zeine, an economist by training who served as finance minister in the early 2000s, was appointed last week by coup leaders who toppled Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.
His visit had not been announced in advance.
It comes as military chiefs from the West African bloc ECOWAS prepare to meet in Ghana on Thursday and Friday to discuss possible armed intervention aimed at restoring Bazoum to office.
Chad and Niger are poor countries with a long history of turbulence, sharing a border some 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) long.
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