Recent information has shown that, Military chiefs from West Africa’s regional bloc, ECOWAS will be meeting to discuss the military coup that took place in the Republic of Niger last week.
The meeting is scheduled to hold from Wednesday to Friday in Abuja, Nigeria.
On Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States slapped sanctions on Niger and warned that it may use force as it gave the junta a week to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum.
An ECOWAS official also told AFP Tuesday that a delegation from the bloc led by former Nigerian president Abdulsalami Abubakar would visit Niger on Wednesday.
The coup has worried Western countries struggling to contain a jihadist insurgency that flared in northern Mali in 2012, advanced into Niger and Burkina Faso three years later and now overshadows fragile states on the Gulf of Guinea.
Countless numbers of civilians, troops and police have been killed across the region, many in ruthless massacres, while around 2.2 million people in Burkina Faso alone have fled their homes. The economic damage has been devastating, Bloomberg Reports.
Niger military government has also announced the re-opening of Niger’s borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Chad. However, the land border with Nigeria remains closed, according to the BBC.
(SaharaReporters)