Lagos, Nigeria: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, also head of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS, on Thursday suggested a nine-month transition back to democracy for Niger's new regime as Nigeria had done in the 1990s following military rule. ECOWAS President Omar Alieu Touray (center) delivers a speech in the presence of Niger's Foreign Affairs Minister Hassoumi Massoudou (right) during an informal meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers held in Toledo on August 31, 2023, in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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