The West African Economic and Monetary Union and ECOWAS sanctions against Niger were harshly criticized by the country’s new military government, which took office nearly three weeks after Mohamed Bazum, the country’s former president.
Ecowas denounced the takeover and placed financial and economic penalties on the nation of more than 25 million people.
On Sunday, August 13, a junta member talked on live television.
“The transitional authorities of Niger regret this attitude of a certain international community countries, which consists of showing solidarity with a few politicians of the deposed regime, while at the same time lacking empathy for the people of Niger, who have been hard hit by the illegal, inhumane and humiliating sanctions imposed by Ecowas, which go so far as to deprive the country of pharmaceutical products, basic foodstuffs and electricity supplies,” Col. Major Amadou Abdramane slammed.
Because Nigeria, who supplies 70% of Niger’s electricity, has turned off power, the sanctions have left the landlocked nation of Niger with a meagre power supply.
Multinational organisations severed their connections as a result of the sanctions.
Only 4.3 million of Niger’s population has access to electricity, and 90% of the country’s people rely on wood for energy. As a result, the country’s population has suffered greatly from a shortage of electricity.