{"id":11483,"date":"2023-12-15T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:04:03","slug":"ecowas-suspends-nigers-membership-over-constitutional-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/15\/ecowas-suspends-nigers-membership-over-constitutional-crisis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS Suspends Niger&#8217;s Membership Over Constitutional Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-xysxy-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-xysxy-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-13\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"79789347-394a-4d2c-9db3-435f5a532ed3\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS\/CEDEAO) has officially suspended Niger&#8217;s membership until constitutional order is restored, according to a statement issued after the recent summit of heads of state and government in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Initially considering the situation as a coup attempt, the conference acknowledged Mohamed Bazoum as Niger&#8217;s President until the 64th ordinary session on December 10, 2023, when the government was recognized as effectively overthrown by a military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, Niger is suspended from all ECOWAS decision-making bodies until constitutional order is reinstated. The ECOWAS leaders had proposed lifting sanctions in exchange for releasing the deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum, but the military junta rejected the offer. The sub-regional body also maintains sanctions against Niger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS\/CEDEAO) has officially suspended Niger&#8217;s membership until constitutional order is restored, according to a statement issued after the recent summit of heads of state and government in Abuja. Initially considering the situation as a coup attempt, the conference acknowledged Mohamed Bazoum as Niger&#8217;s President until the 64th ordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11489,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions\/11489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}