{"id":12214,"date":"2023-08-14T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:32:03","slug":"african-union-meets-on-niger-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/14\/african-union-meets-on-niger-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union Meets On Niger Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The African Union (AU) said it was holding a meeting on Monday on the crisis in Niger following the coup on July 26 that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAU\u2019s Peace &amp; Security Council meets to receive an update on the evolution of the situation in Niger and the efforts to address it,\u201d the pan-African body said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was taking place at AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those attending include AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat as well as representatives from Niger and the West African bloc ECOWAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Faki expressed \u201cdeep concern\u201d at the reported poor conditions of Bazoum\u2019s detention, calling his treatment at the hands of coup leaders \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Niger\u2019s military regime vowed to prosecute the democratically elected Bazoum for \u201chigh treason\u201d and slammed ECOWAS for imposing sanctions on the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bazoum, 63, and his family have been held at the president\u2019s official Niamey residence since the coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Union (AU) said it was holding a meeting on Monday on the crisis in Niger following the coup on July 26 that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum. \u201cAU\u2019s Peace &amp; Security Council meets to receive an update on the evolution of the situation in Niger and the efforts to address it,\u201d the pan-African body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-47.png?fit=650%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}