Comments come as the coup leader addresses the nation to warn against foreign meddling
Joe Biden has called for the immediate release of Niger’s elected president and for the country’s democracy to be restored, in the highest profile intervention by the US since the coup that removed Mohamed Bazoum from power.
“I call for President Bazoum and his family to be immediately released, and for the preservation of Niger’s hard-earned democracy,” the US president said in a statement on Thursday, the 63rd anniversary of Niger’s independence.
