Hundreds of people backing the coup in Niger gathered Thursday for a mass rally in the capital Niamey with some brandishing giant Russian flags, according to AFP journalists.
The demonstrators converged on Independence Square in the heart of the city, following a call by a coalition of civil society associations on a day marking the country’s 1960 independence from France.
Issiaka Hamadou, one of the demonstrators, said only security interests the people, irrespective of whether it came from “Russia, China, Turkey.
He added that the country just doesn’t want the French, who he claimed have been looting the country