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Niger's ousted Prime Minister hopes talks can end military coup

Niger Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou speaks with the press outside Niger's embassy, in Paris on Aug. 5, 2023. [AFP]

Niger's ousted prime minister on Saturday clung to the dimming hope that last week's military coup could be overturned by diplomacy, he told Reuters 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.

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