Africa File Special Edition: One Year After Niger’s Coup
July 23, 2024 - ISW Press![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/CTP%20Slider%20Logo.png?itok=yGTTpJ6b)
Niger’s junta has significantly altered its international and regional partnerships away from the West in its first year of power. The Nigerien presidential guards launched a coup against democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, 2023. Niger’s other security forces fell in line over the next 24 hours despite the largely isolated initial motivations of the junta leader Abdirahmane Tiani.