Niger Coup Plotters Under Fire, ECOWAS Threatens to Use ‘Military Force’
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has warned the coup leaders to return Niger to its democratically elected government or face possible military intervention. Members of ECOWAS, led by Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, gave Niger’s junta leaders a week’s ultimatum to release and reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum. “In the event the authorities’ demands are not met within one …