Ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and his wife Hadiza have spent more than 20 months in detention since the junta seized power in a 2023 coup.

Niger’s democratically elected former President Mohamed Bazoum and his wife Hadiza have spent more than 20 months in detention by a military that seized power in 2023 and this week cemented its grip on the country.

A former high school philosophy teacher who went on to become Niger’s interior minister, Bazoum represented a break with the past: His presidential inauguration in 2021 was hailed as the first peaceful democratic transition in the West African nation since it gained independence from France in 1960.

But he was ousted only two years later as Niger followed in the footsteps of neighboring Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso in returning to military rule. On Wednesday, coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani was sworn in as Niger’s president for a “transitional” five years.

edit: downvotes from spineless coward Putin bitches. maybe if you’re a cunt hard enough your daddy dictator will anal you softly.

    • TacoButtPlugOPEnglish
      -4•14 days ago

      “wEsTeRn ImPeRiLiSt…”

      I guess that makes killing innocent people and fucking a functioning government over OK to you. lol. jfc… you people are fucking SPECIAL.

      edit: downvotes from spineless cowards Putin bitches. maybe if you’re a cunt hard enough your daddy dictator will anal you softly.

        • TacoButtPlugOPEnglish
          -2•14 days ago

          Lol. Oh you mad. And all because you can’t read. Your parents really hooked you up in the life success department.

      • @Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
        6•15 days ago

        Poor US AFRICOM colonial occupation force getting kicked out.
        Oh nooo, the poor people!
        I bet you are also crying about the violence and coups you cause almost every day in the world.
        Hypocrite.
        The US colonial power is finished. Cope

        • TacoButtPlugOPEnglish
          -5•14 days ago

          If your stupid troll ass looked over my post history you’d see a pattern but then again… that requires honesty, a spine in your back, no bullshit troll intent, and no bad faith bullshit. I think the projection is strong with your… type. Keep huffing the glue in your lice carpet wall covered soviet bloc room. Things will look up for you.

          edit: downvotes from spineless cowarded Putin bitches. maybe if you’re a cunt hard enough your daddy dictator will anal you more softly.

            • TacoButtPlugOPEnglish
              -3•14 days ago

              Here’s the sad part of this whole exchange. I’m over here, a random cunt using the last dying breaths of my shithole country’s freedom to criticise my piece of shit government, while noting there are, in fact, other piece of shit governments too.

              Meanwhile, you’re out there being an absolutely spineless and convictionless arselicker; doing all you can to please the portrait of whatever whack dictator you have hanging on your sucio walls and you’re all pissed off because someone that’s clearly not you, has the fucking audacity to not be a spineless dictator groveling crotch pheasant.

              Yea, I might be somewhere that sucks and has trash elites but so do you.

              The difference between you and I is, I have a day job that’s not being an autocrat’s bitch online and am willing to see the wrongs of my people and call for change. Meanwhile, here you are… jUsT fOlLoWiNg OrDeRs to defend autocracy on every social media you’re assigned to - and are angry someone out there isn’t cowering like you.

              You could be working towards your and your people’s own freedom to criticize own dickhole leaders but instead, here you are… proving your pathetic allegiance to an effort towards the world’s enslavement.

              Bravo clownrade. 🤡

                • TacoButtPlugOPEnglish
                  -3•14 days ago

                  You called yourself Russian above, Borat. Lol! Fucking halfwit. You write like your mom drank too much while you were in the womb. You read like a cishet white dude who mentally never figured out how to articulate above the 10th grade*. Defo, you wouldn’t know wtf intelligence was if it bit you in the clown ass. If you’re not being paid to be a coward and you’re just this complete spineless twat on lemmy for nothing… lmfao that proves the point.

                  So mentally fucked up on your glue fumes you’re calling yourself Russo in one breath, forgetting you did that and whining about it, and then vomiting out autocrat talking points like a Trump/Biden/Putin/Duterte/Bukele loving bitch. Then getting confused wtf fascism even is.

                  No one is this fucking stupid. If you’re not getting paid to be this shitty of a troll, you should consider it.