{"id":2033972,"date":"2023-09-15T20:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-coup-holds-french-ambassador-among-others-hostage-per-macron\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:46:40","slug":"niger-coup-holds-french-ambassador-among-others-hostage-per-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-coup-holds-french-ambassador-among-others-hostage-per-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"French ambassador and others held hostage in Niger coup, says Macron."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fniger-coup-holds-french-ambassador-among-others-hostage-per-macron%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2033972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>French Ambassador Held Hostage\u200c in Niger<\/h2>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron made a shocking announcement on Friday, revealing that their\u200c ambassador\u200b to Niger is currently being\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-public-schools-reaches-tentative-reopening-deal-with-teachers-union-students-may-return-this-week\/\" title=\"Chicago Public Schools Reaches \u2018Tentative\u2019 Reopening Deal With Teachers Union, Students May Return This Week\">held hostage<\/a> at the \u200bFrench embassy. Macron expressed his concern, stating, &#8220;In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an \u2062ambassador and diplomatic members who are\u2063 literally being held hostage. They \u2063are preventing food deliveries, and he is eating\u2064 military rations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging\u200d Times for Ambassador Sylvain\u200d Itte<\/h3>\n<p>Ambassador Sylvain Itte, aged 64, has been serving\u200b in Niger since October of last year. However, his current term has been disrupted \u2063by a \u2064coup led by the Conseil National pour la Sauvegarde de la Patrie (CNSP), which ousted\u200b President\u200c Mohamed Bazoum. Despite\u200d the CNSP&#8217;s demand for \u200bItte to leave the country within 48 hours, \u200bMacron has chosen to keep him there, even deploying\u2062 1,500 additional French troops to Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Macron emphasized his commitment\u2064 to working with President Bazoum, recognizing him as the legitimate\u2063 authority. However, neither France nor the \u2064European Union has officially recognized\u200b the CNSP as the\u200c ruling party.<\/p>\n<h3>International \u2063Response and Reluctance<\/h3>\n<p>The\u2062 Biden administration has been cautious in labeling the situation as an attempted coup, as doing \u2062so could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-coup-holds-french-ambassador-among-others-hostage-per-macron\/\" title=\"French ambassador and others held hostage in Niger coup, says Macron.\">potentially strain \u200cmilitary ties<\/a> \u200bwith Niger. Meanwhile, the Economic Community\u2062 of West African\u200d States is contemplating \u200ca\u2063 military intervention. In the midst of this uncertainty, the United\u200d States is\u200c prepared to evacuate \u200dtroops from its Nigerien Air Base 201, as\u2062 the airspace remains closed.<\/p>\n<p>These developments\u200d highlight the complex and tense situation unfolding in Niger, with the French ambassador&#8217;s safety hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has the\u2064 French\u2062 government \u2062responded to the demand for the ambassador to leave the country within 48 hours?<\/h2>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<h2>French Ambassador Held Hostage in Niger<\/h2>\n<p>French \u200cPresident Emmanuel Macron made a shocking announcement on Friday, revealing that \u2062their\u200d ambassador to Niger is currently being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ruling-classs-two-tier-system-will-drive-ordinary-people-to-radicalization\/\" title=\"The ruling class's two-tier system fuels radicalization among ordinary people.\">held \u2062hostage<\/a> at the French \u200bembassy. Macron expressed his concern, stating, &#8220;In Niger, as I speak to you,\u2064 we \u200bhave an\u200b ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally being held\u2063 hostage. They are preventing food deliveries, and he is eating military rations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Sylvain Itte, aged 64, has been serving in Niger since October of last year. However, his current term has been disrupted by a coup led \u2064by the Conseil National pour la Sauvegarde de la Patrie (CNSP), which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Despite the CNSP&#8217;s demand for Itte to leave the country within 48 hours, Macron has chosen to keep\u2062 him there, even deploying 1,500 additional French troops to Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Macron emphasized his commitment to working with President Bazoum, recognizing\u200b him as the \u2062legitimate\u2062 authority. \u2063However, neither France nor \u200dthe European Union has officially recognized the CNSP as the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has been cautious \u200bin labeling the situation as an attempted coup, as doing so could \u2062potentially strain military ties with Niger.\u2064 Meanwhile, the Economic Community of West African States is contemplating a military intervention. In the midst of \u2064this uncertainty, the United States is prepared \u2062to evacuate troops from its Nigerien Air Base 201, as the airspace remains closed.<\/p>\n<p>These developments highlight the complex and tense situation unfolding in \u2064Niger, with the \u2062French ambassador&#8217;s safety hanging in\u200d the\u200c balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron revealed on Friday that his ambassador to Niger, along with other diplomatic members, is currently being held hostage at the French embassy in Niger. Macron expressed concern over the situation, stating that the hostages are being denied food deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2033973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}