Coup: ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Express Readiness To Storm Niger Republic

The regional bloc met again on August 10 in Abuja to restate their willingness to deploy the military to remove the ruling junta in Niger Republic.However, the junta leaders, despite crippling raft of sanctions, have refused to release the detained President Bazoum and even threatened to prosecute him for what they referred to as “high treason.

The Accra meeting on Thursday was reportedly attended by all member states except those under military rule and Cape Verde, according ECOWAS commissioner, Abdel-Fatau Musah, who was quoted by Aljazeera to have said.

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