NIAMEY - Several thousand people demonstrated in the capital of Niger on Sunday in support of last month's military coup, whose leader has warned against outside intervention and proposed a three-year transition of power.
The demonstrators waved placards saying, "Stop the military intervention" and "No to sanctions", in reference to the financial and trade restrictions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States four days after the coup on July 26. General Abdourahamane Tiani also said in a televised address on Saturday that he did not wish to "confiscate" power and a transition of power back to civilian rule would not go beyond three years.
In his televised address on Saturday, Tiani alleged that ECOWAS was "getting ready to attack Niger by setting up an occupying army in collaboration with a foreign army", without saying which country he meant.
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