The military takeover in Niger has caused an international outcry with mounting pressure for the West African nation’s democratically elected president to be reinstated.

Although the US has cut some aid, it’s still skirting around calling this crisis a coup. Why?

The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher explains

Produced by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Tom Santorelli

Edited by Alexandra Ostasiewicz

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Leaders from West Africa are set to meet at an emergency summit, after Niger’s army took power in a coup.

It comes after the EU suspended all security cooperation with the nation, and the US declared its "unflagging support" for ousted president Mohamed Bazoum - seen as a key Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants.

On Friday the head of the presidential guards unit Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani declared himself Niger's new leader, and there are concerns about which countries he will align with. The leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin has reportedly described the coup as a triumph.

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