Niger's president-elect Mohamed Bazoum. Picture: REUTERS/JOE PENNEYNiger’s capital Niamey was calm on Wednesday morning following heavy gunfire near the presidential palace during the night after a unit from a nearby air base tried to seize the palace, a senior Niger security source said.
The sources did not say where the assailants had gone or comment on the whereabouts of President Mahamane Ousmane or president-elect Mohamed Bazoum, who is due to be sworn in on Friday after an election victory disputed by Ousmane. Bazoum’s election is the first democratic transition of power in the West African state that has witnessed four military coups since independence from France in 1960.
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