Macron says ambassador to Niger 'literally held hostage'

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SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS: President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday (Sep 16) that France's envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission. The ambassador is living off 'military rations', Macron told reporters in the eastern town o

SEMUR-EN-AUXOIS: President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France's envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission.

"They are preventing food deliveries," he said, in an apparent reference to Niger's new military rulers."He is eating military rations." Asked whether France would consider bringing him home, Macron said:"I will do whatever we agree with President Bazoum because he is the legitimate authority and I speak with him every day."

 

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