APA – Dakar (Senegal) – The Guinean authorities have not condemned the coup d’Etat in Niger, orchestrated by the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, led by General Abdourahamane Tiani.
Hundreds of Guinean migrants are stranded in Agadez, in the north of Niger. These adventurers are being held in a camp run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
According to a Guinean migrant contacted by APA, the sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against Niger following the coup d’Etat on 26 July have had a negative impact on their situation.
“We are experiencing serious difficulties here. We are exposed to all kinds of dangers. We used to suffer, but things have got worse,” says Ben Aly Badra Camara, who spoke to us by phone on Wednesday 23 August.
The migrant claims that they are subjected to daily attacks by Nigeriens, who make them pay for the sanctions imposed by the EU against their country.
According to him, their lives are in danger. As a result, the migrant is asking his country’s authorities to “repatriate them before the unspeakable happens.”
“There are 1,500 Guineans in this camp. We are asking the Guinean authorities to come to our aid, as they did with those who were in Tunisia,” the Guinean pleads.
In the aftermath of the coup d’Etat against Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July, a source at the Guinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs told APA that the situation in Niger did not require Guinean nationals to be evacuated.
The Guinean transitional authorities who came to power after staging a coup d’Etat on September 5, 2021, have not condemned the military takeover in Niamey.
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