{"id":21943,"date":"2015-12-17T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/niger-coup-plot-foiled-president-mahamadou\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:53:56","slug":"niger-coup-plot-foiled-president-mahamadou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/niger-coup-plot-foiled-president-mahamadou\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger coup plot foiled &#8211; President Mahamadou Issoufou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Niger&#8217;s President Mahamadou Issoufou has said his government has foiled a plot to overthrow him.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>Mr Issoufou said the plotters planned to use &#8220;aerial firepower&#8221; to unseat him, in comments made on state TV.<\/p>\n<p>He was elected in 2011, bringing to an end years of military rule. Niger has seen several coups since becoming independent in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions are high ahead of next year&#8217;s presidential election, which Mr Issoufou is favourite to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government has just foiled an evil attempt at destabilisation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don&#8217;t know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least four senior military officials have been arrested, local media reported, but it is not clear why they were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Mr Issoufou&#8217;s election in 2011, 10 military figures were arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9928 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_87272552_87272551.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Issoufou&#039;s election four years ago marked a return to democracy for Niger \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC:[Niger coup plot foiled &#8211; President Mahamadou Issoufou->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35128742]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Niger&#8217;s President Mahamadou Issoufou has said his government has foiled a plot to overthrow him. } Mr Issoufou said the plotters planned to use &#8220;aerial firepower&#8221; to unseat him, in comments made on state TV. He was elected in 2011, bringing to an end years of military rule. Niger has seen several coups since becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070927,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21943.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}