{"id":50600,"date":"2023-09-15T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/niger\/politique\/frances-ambassador-in-niger-taken-hostage-says-president-macron"},"modified":"2023-09-15T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:54:41","slug":"frances-ambassador-in-niger-taken-hostage-says-president-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/niger\/politique\/frances-ambassador-in-niger-taken-hostage-says-president-macron","title":{"rendered":"France&rsquo;s ambassador in Niger &lsquo;taken hostage,&rsquo; says President Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Niger. <\/strong><\/span>Under Niger\u2019s new military administration, France\u2019s ambassador has effectively been \u201ctaken hostage,\u201d said President Emmanuel Macron, reported French media on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,\u201d Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to the northwestern town of Semur-en-Auxois, according to broadcaster BFMTV.<\/p>\n<p>As Niger\u2019s leaders do not allow fresh supplies into the embassy compound, the ambassador is forced to eat only military rations, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Niger plunged into turmoil on July 26, when Gen. 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Under Niger\u2019s new military administration, France\u2019s ambassador has effectively been \u201ctaken hostage,\u201d said President Emmanuel Macron, reported French media on Friday evening. \u201cIn Niger, as I speak to you, we have an ambassador and diplomatic members who are literally taken hostage at the French Embassy,\u201d Emmanuel Macron said during a visit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":50598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,73,10],"tags":[55,60,100,1973,29,47],"class_list":["post-50600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","category-to-homepage","category-toutes-les-actualites","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-niger","tag-france","tag-french-president","tag-niger","tag-sahel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France&#039;s ambassador in Niger &#039;taken hostage,&#039; says President Macron - niger<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/niger\/politique\/frances-ambassador-in-niger-taken-hostage-says-president-macron\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"France&#039;s ambassador in Niger &#039;taken hostage,&#039; says President Macron\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Niger. 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