Military leaders from the West African ECOWAS bloc will be meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss a possible intervention to resolve the coup in Niger.
Recall that President Mohamed Bazoum was held under house arrest with his wife and son since 26 July after the was overthrown by armed military junta.
The meeting which is coming days after ECOWAS said a standby force could be used to resolve the crisis in Niger.
ECOWAS, backed by France and the US, has said the junta’s leaders should restore the democratically elected president to power
The meeting, initially scheduled for 12 August, had been postponed and will finally take place on 17 and 18 August in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, according to a regional military source and a source within ECOWAS.
It will be held a week after the organization’s decision to deploy a “standby force” to restore President Mohamed Bazoum.
In another news, Mali one of the neighboring country to Niger, showed its solidarity with the military in power in Niamey. Recently, Mali has raised their voices in defense to the military junta in the face of threat of armed intervention.
Meanwhile, On Tuesday, during a telephone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Malian counterpart Assimi Goïta, who came to power by a putsch in 2020, stressed “the importance of resolving the situation” in Niger, “only by means peaceful politico-diplomatic”.
