West African leaders defer a crisis meeting on dealing with the coup in Niger after approving the deployment of a 'standby force to restore constitutional order' as soon as possible
President Mohamed Bazoum meanwhile sits confined with his family in an unlit basement of his presidential compound, cut off from resupplies of food and from electricity and cooking gas by the junta that overthrew him, Niger's ambassador to the United States told The Associated Press.
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said he was"dismayed" by the military's refusal to release Bazoum's family as a"demonstration of goodwill". Human Rights Watch said it had spoken to Bazoum earlier this week. The 63-year-old described the treatment of himself and his family as"inhuman and cruel", HRW said.
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