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West Africa’s regional bloc has imposed sanctions on Niger and threatened possible use of force. What options exist?
Niger’s military government has defied a Sunday deadline from West Africa’s regional bloc to reinstate overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum or face a possible military intervention.
Defence chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) last week drew up a plan for the possible use of force to reverse the July 26 coup, including how and when to deploy forces, raising the spectre of further conflict in a region already struggling with deadly armed…
