Potential military action in Niger

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has drawn up a plan for military action if coup leaders don’t step down in the country.

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(Photo: Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa (3-L), and the Chiefs of Defence Staff from ECOWAS countries attend a photo call at the start of the Extraordinary Meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chief of Defence Staff on the Political Situation in the Republic of Niger at the Defence headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria on 2 August 2023. The military leaders are discussing the political situation in Niger. Defence Chiefs from Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Guinea Bissau did not attend. Credit: EPA/STR)