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Niger’s captive leader losing weight in inhumane conditions, daughter reveals

Niger’s captive leader losing weight in inhumane conditions, daughter reveals

Exclusive: Zazia Bazoum says Mohamed Bazoum and other family members being denied electricity after military coup

Niger’s overthrown leader and his family are being held under inhumane conditions by their military captors, who have cut off the electricity to the presidential residence, leaving them to rapidly lose weight while food rots in the fridge, the president’s daughter has told the Guardian.

Zazia Bazoum, who was on holiday in France when Mohamed Bazoum was detained by his own presidential guard last month, said she is in neardaily phone contact with her father, mother and brother, who she says are living without clean water and relying on supplies of rice and pasta, although their gas oven is running out of fuel.

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