
Thousands Of Niger Coup Plotters Loyalists Overwhelm Call For Civilian Volunteers
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of Niger’s junta were forced on Saturday to halt a census of people willing to volunteer for non-military roles in defence against a possible intervention by West African powers, saying they had been overwhelmed by the numbers who turned up. Thousands of mostly young men had massed outside a stadium in…