African Union condemns Niger manoeuvre but America blames suspended leader

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The African Union assimilated France, the former colonial power, yesterday in condemning a manoeuvre in Niger, after soldiers stormed a Cabinet assembly and incarcerated President Tandja. However, the United States appeared to give the move, in the worlds third-largest writer of uranium, the approval.

The Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy seized energy underneath Salou Djibo, an troops military officer lerned in Ivory Coast, Morocco and China who has served in UN peacekeeping missions, after Mr Tandja attempted to shift the constitution to magnify his rule. The US referred to that Mr Tandja had usually himself to censure after unwell to concede over the constitution.

President Tandja has been perplexing to magnify his charge in office. And obviously, that might well have been, you know, an movement on his interest that precipitated this movement today, the State Department orator Philip Crowley said.

The comments appeared to vigilance a shift in proceed by the Obama Administration, that has hitherto stressed the need to apply oneself of approved shift in Africa presumably triggered by ascent concerns over fortitude in West Africa.

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Guinea has been in misunderstanding for some-more than a year given a manoeuvre by immature armed forces officers and Nigeria the greatest nation in the segment has been paralysed by a inherent predicament given the President has been in sanatorium in Saudia Arabia for some-more than dual months.

Military sources were quoted as observant that the manoeuvre operation was led by Colonel Abdoulaye Adamou Harouna, who commands the countrys standby force for the West African informal bloc, Ecowas.

The junta swung in to movement before long after it took carry out on Thursday with a call for await from the fifteen million race and betrothed to spin the country, now in last place on the UNs Human Development Index, in to a guide of great democracy and governance after months of domestic turmoil.

The junta reliable that it was holding Mr Tandja at a troops place in the capital. Mr Mamadou Tandja is being hold in one of the offices in this unit. He is fine, he is you do really well, pronounced an troops military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.