Salou Hassan poses for a photograph in front of the two-room hut he lives in with his family on the side of the road crowded with some 140 people in Niamey, Niger, on Monday. The European Union has cut off financial support to Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world one of the poorest countries in the world, after military leaders this week announced they had overthrown the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.