The president says that “diplomatic members” are also being held at the French embassy.
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Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday September 15 that the French ambassador to Niger had been arrested “hostage” by the military in power. “In Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French embassy”declared the Head of State during a trip to Semur-en-Auxois (Côte-d’Or). “We are preventing the delivery of food. He eats with military rations”he added, in an allusion to the soldiers who overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum and took power on July 26.