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Global News Podcast

Niger: Ousted president to be prosecuted

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The leaders of last month's coup say Mohamed Bazoum will be tried for high treason. Also, a colourful far-right candidate wins a primary election in Argentina, and fan letters written by Beatle George Harrison's mother go up for auction.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm very excited to be hosting What in the World, a new daily podcast

0:06.1

from the BBC World Service, where we try to help you make sense of the world around you,

0:11.2

of the big things that are happening, the small things that are happening and everything in between.

0:16.2

Search for What in the World, wherever you get your BBC podcasts and hit subscribe.

0:24.4

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:30.4

I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and at 1300 hours GMT on Monday the 14th of August, these are our main

0:37.9

stories. Co-leaders in Niger say they are preparing trees and charges against the deposed president

0:44.5

Mohamed Basoum. The far-right politician Javier Millet has shocked Argentina by winning an election

0:51.5

to select candidates for the presidential elections in October. The chief of staff to Madagascar's

0:57.5

president has been arrested in London on charges of soliciting a bribe from a mining company.

1:06.4

Also in this podcast, fed up with their government, the Israelis choosing to leave their home,

1:12.5

and the teenage boy who survived falling from a ledge at the Grand Canyon.

1:17.9

We're just lucky we're bringing our kid home in a car in front seat instead of in a box.

1:28.9

Niger is still in turmoil following the military coup last month, which saw the democratically

1:34.9

elected president Mohamed Basoum ousted. Despite calls for him to be immediately released,

1:40.8

he remains in detention, and now Niger's military leaders say they will prosecute him for

1:46.0

high treason. It comes just hours after they said they remained open to diplomacy with the West

1:52.1

African regional group ECOWAS to end the standoff over the coup. I heard more from the BBC's

1:58.4

and Kechiogbona, who's been following events from neighbouring Nigeria.

2:02.3

The statement read by Ami Spock's person last night did not explicitly say why they were going

2:09.1

to prosecute him. However, we do believe that this is linked to Saturday statements from General

2:16.4

Chianni, who said the coup was well intended, and stating that they had struck to stave off an

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