Niger PM clings to fading hope that military coup may be undone via diplomacy

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Niger prime minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou speaks to the press outside the Niger embassy in Paris on Saturday. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Getty Images Niger’s ousted prime minister on Saturday clung to the dimming hope that last week’s military coup could be overturned by diplomacy, he said on the eve of a deadline set by regional powers to reinstate the elected government. Niger’s military takeover, the seventh in west and central Africa in three years, has rocked the western Sahel region, one of the poorest in the world, which has strategic significance to global powers. Defence chiefs from the Economic Community of West...