West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS on Saturday said it was lifting some of the sanctions imposed on Niger after last year's military coup. A no-fly zone and border closures were among the sanctions being lifted "with immediate effect" on "humanitarian grounds", said ECOWAS Commission chief Omar Alieu Touray following an emergency summit in Abuja.

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