Attempted military coup foiled in Niger

Two days before the newly President-elect Mohamed Bazoum is due to be sworn into office Niger’s security forces early Wednesday thwarted an attempted military coup in the presidential palace.

Report by Aljazeera says that several people were arrested and others are being sought.

The report says that the assailants, who were from a close air base, fled after the presidential guard met their attack with heavy shelling and gunfire.

The Presidential Guard was said to have…