West African military chiefs to discuss Niger crisis Thursday and Friday | Military News

by Press Room


Meeting rescheduled as Niger’s coup leaders send mixed signals about negotiating with the regional bloc.

Military chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will meet in Ghana on Thursday and Friday to discuss a possible military intervention in Niger, regional military and political sources say.

The meeting was called after the bloc’s leaders last week approved the deployment of a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger, whose elected president was toppled by the military on July 26.

The meeting was originally scheduled for Saturday in Accra…



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