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Ahead of the May 6 elections, a huge crowd of supporters gather in Moundou, southern Chad, for a campaign rally of presidential hopeful and current junta-appointed prime minister Succes Masra. The city is considered an opposition stronghold. IMAGES
A convoy of French soldiers from Tabarey-Barey arrives in Niamey, Niger. The withdrawal of the French troops had been demanded by Niger's generals soon after they came to power in a coup at the end of July, and French President Emmanuel Macron announced their departure at the end of September. IMAGES
Thousands take to the streets of Niamey, the Nigerien capital, to demand the removal of French troops from the country. Niger has braced for a weekend of planned anti-French rallies as tensions mount between the west African countries new military rulers and its traditional European ally. France has around 1,500 troops in Niger, many of them stationed at an airbase near the capital, deployed to help fight jihadist insurgency. IMAGES
A mass of supporters of Niger's coup leaders gathered near a French military base on the outskirts of the capital Niamey, AFP reporters saw. They shouted, "down with France, down with ECOWAS", a reference to the West African bloc which on Thursday approved deployment of a "standby force to restore constitutional order" in Niger. IMAGES
The heads of West African states gather in Abuja to hold an extraordinary summit on Niger, following a coup d'etat which has established military leaders as the new heads of state. The summit follows an announcement overnight by Niger's military regime that they had formed a new government. ECOWAS says it has not ruled out military intervention in order to reinstate overthrown president Mohamed Bazoum. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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