Niger risks military intervention

West African countries have threatened military invention in Niger if coup leaders don’t restore the ousted President.

Also on the programme: We catch up with the baby who was born beneath the rubble of her home during the Turkey and Syria earthquake earlier this year, and locals are complaining in an Italian city as bells of their renowned church tower aren’t allowed to chime every half hour, 24 hours a day because of tourists.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more is Shruti Kapila, a professor of history and politics at Cambridge University, who specialises in modern and contemporary India in a BBC studio in Cambridge, and Seyi Rhodes, a British TV reporter, film producer and investigative journalist in the studio.

(Photo: Protesters display a sign that reads 'No to French mercenaries on our soil, long live CNSP, long live Niger' during a protest in Niamey, Niger, on 30 July 2023. Thousands of supporters of General Abdourahamane Tchiani, head of the Presidential Guard, who declared himself the new leader of Niger after a coup against democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July, took to the streets of Niamey to demonstrate support for the coup. Credit: EPA/Issifou Djibo)