Niger coup: West African nations to assemble 'standby force'
After the Ecowas meeting, Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara said Ecowas had intervened in African countries in order to restore constitutional order before.
Mr Ouattara said the Ivory Coast would provide a battalion of 850 to 1,100 men, and said soldiers from Nigeria and Benin would also be deployed. He did not set out further details of what the force it intends to assemble might look like or what action it might take.
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