Mohamed Bazoum
On 26 July 2023, soldiers of the Presidential Guard removed Bazoum from power and arrested him. When his removal was announce, Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane went on state television to claim that the President had been removed from power and was being replaced by a military junta calling itself the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland. On August 13, 2023, the government of Niger announced that it wanted to "prosecute before the competent national and international authorities Mohamed Bazoum and his local and foreign accomplices, for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger".