German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has held talks with African Union Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other stakeholders about the coup in Niger, and Germany is now backing EU sanctions against the military junta, her ministry said on Thursday, APA reports citing Reuetrs.
In comments posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the foreign ministry said Baerbock had held the talks with "the goal of re-establishing constitutional order" in Niger.
During a visit to Abuja, German development minister Svenja Schulze also met with representatives of the West African bloc ECOWAS, the ministry said.
"After the suspension of development cooperation and security cooperation, we in the EU now want to introduce sanctions against the putschists," it added.
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