2023-08-12 23:37:00
With our correspondent in Abuja, Liza Fabbian
More than ever, traditional leaders seem determined to play a role in mediation efforts with the Nigerien junta. The influential clerics, who traveled to Niamey on Saturday August 12, all belong to the Wahhabi movement in Nigeria.
This was the first foreign delegation to be received by Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, who was appointed to this post on Monday by the military in power in Niamey. These religious leaders then met General Abdourahamane Tiani in person, in the presidential palace.
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During an appearance on Nigerien television, the ulemas welcomed the content of their exchanges, which they will report to the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For his part, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said he had ” pleaded » for the lifting of penalties deemed ” inhumane and unacceptable »in order to allow a return “ to a normal situation in Niger.
Before the extraordinary ECOWAS summit held Thursday in Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had received representatives of the different currents of Islam in his country. They had expressed their deep concern at the idea of a conflict which could, in particular, according to them, exacerbate ethnic and religious tensions in Nigeria.
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