Gunfire and loud blasts have been heard at the main airport in the Nigerien capital of Niamey, according to the Reuters news agency and an independent source. The airport is next to Base Aérienne 101, a military base previously used by American and then Russian troops. A source with the Togolese airline Asky told the Guardian that gunshots made several holes in the fuselage of its two planes on the tarmac of Niamey airport. Fofana Yacouba, a spokesman for Air Cóte d’Ivoire confirmed that one of the Ivorian airline’s aircraft was also hit. There has been at least one successful coup and two failed attempts in the region since then.