Ecowas is ready to intervene militarily to reverse a coup there.
ACCRA: The West African bloc Ecowas stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana today to discuss the details of a standby force.
“By all means available, constitutional order will be restored in the country,” he told assembled defence chiefs from member countries, listing past Ecowas deployments in Gambia, Liberia and elsewhere as examples of readiness. In Niger’s capital Niamey, where large crowds have taken part in protests against Ecowas and in favour of the coup leaders, residents rejected the idea of an outside intervention to reinstate the elected president and civilian government.
Musah rejected the accusation that Ecowas was being manipulated by France or any other outside power. Musah accused the Niger coup leaders of “playing cat-and-mouse” with Ecowas by refusing to meet with its envoys and seeking justifications for their takeover of power.
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