Following the coup last week, major cities in Niger are currently experiencing rolling blackouts.
According to Nigelec, the energy utility of Niger, Nigeria has suspended supply to its northern neighbour as a result of the power shortages.
Sanctions have been placed on Niger as a result of the coup by the West African trading bloc ECOWAS, but it is unclear if these measures cover electrical supplies.
The Niger conflict is the topic of a meeting between ECOWAS defence chiefs in Nigeria.
The military junta in Niger was given a week to resign or risk military intervention by West African leaders on Sunday.
European nations are currently pulling their citizens out of Niger.
The power is only on for roughly an hour at a period for residents of the cities of Niamey, Maradi, and Zinder before being shut off for up to five hours.
In Niger, where supplies are often consistent and reliable, power outages like these are uncommon.
However, Nigeria, the nation’s wealthier neighbour to the south, is highly reliant on it as its primary source of electricity.
Regarding the power outages in Niger, the Transmission Company of Nigeria has refrained from speaking.However, a source who would not be named informed the BBC that a presidential decree caused the supply to Niger to be turned off on Tuesday.
The democratically elected president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, was deposed by his own presidential guards who were stationed outside his palace last week.
Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, commander of the presidential guard, was appointed president while the constitution was suspended.
The Niger’s borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, and Chad will now be reopened, according to the military government. It still has closed borders with Nigeria.
Following the coup, mediation is continuing, and a delegation from Ecowas (the Economic Community of West African States) is meeting in Niger on Wednesday. Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, a former military head of state in Nigeria who managed the nation’s 1999 transition from military rule to democracy, is currently in charge of it.
According to reports, the delegation also includes Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, who is Nigeria’s most senior Muslim leader. He is also quite powerful in Niger, which was once a part of the Sokoto Caliphate, a stronghold before colonial administration.
The first evacuation flights have now begun to land in Europe. Early on Wednesday, 262 French nationals arrived in Paris amid anti-French sentiment in the nation.
Following the coup, there have been protests against the former colonial power, and the French embassy has even come under attack.
Regarding the roughly 1,000 French soldiers stationed there as part of operations to combat Islamist militants, France claims it has no intentions to send them home.