International Figures Call for Immediate Release of Nigerâs Former President Mohamed Bazoum Amidst Political Crisis
About thirty eminent people, including Nobel Prize laureates Denis Mukwege and Wole Soyinka, made a fervent and urgent appeal on Sunday for the release of Niger’s former president, Mohamed Bazoum, who has been under detention since a military takeover of his administration in July 2023. Published in the French daily *Le Monde*, their appeal sought to have Bazoum and his …