Niger upset: Expelled President Bazoum to be accused of high treachery, junta says

 Mohamed Bazoum was overturned as president over two years after he got to work

Niger's tactical junta has declared plans to indict dismissed President Mohamed Bazoum for high conspiracy and sabotaging public safety.

This is the most recent sign that the junta means to oppose worldwide strain to return capacity to Mr Bazoum.

The West African provincial alliance Ecowas said it was stunned to discover that the junta needed to indict him.

He has been held in the storm cellar of his castle since the military organized an overthrow around three weeks prior.

Mr Bazoum was "feeling great" regardless of being held in "troublesome" conditions, his PCP said after The agent chief at Basic liberties Watch Africa, Carine Kaneza Nantulya, additionally let the BBC know that they were concerned the charges might be politically roused.

"As far as the potential charge that has been discussed we're likewise worried that this may be a politically persuaded charge, given the length and the idea of President Bazoum's confinement and the other co-prisoners", she added.

Mr Bazoum has been seen once since he was toppled, in a photograph delivered after he met Chad's chief Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.

Mr Déby met both the junta and Mr Bazoum not long after the overthrow in a bombed bid to determine the emergency