Commanders of Troops of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have today declared that they are ready to participate in a standby force that could intervene in the Republic of Niger.
At a meeting in Ghana’s capital, Accra, today Thursday, the defence chiefs said they are prepared to reinstate the democratic order in Niger.
The ECOWAS defence chiefs began their meeting in Ghana Thursday morning.
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The Accra meeting of top army commanders slated for Thursday and Friday came after fresh violence in Niger, with jihadists killing at least 17 soldiers in an ambush, the defence ministry said.
Twenty more soldiers were wounded, six seriously, in the heaviest losses since the July 26 coup, when the presidential guard ousted Bazoum and detained him and his family.
Meanwhile, analysts say any ECOWAS intervention against Niger’s coup leaders would be militarily and politically risky, and the bloc has said it prefers a diplomatic outcome.
