Thousands gathered at Niger’s national stadium on Sunday in support of the military junta as a seven-day deadline, set by the Economic Community of West African States, for coup leaders to return the deposed president Mohamed Bazoum loomed.
Abdel-Fatau Musah, Ecowas commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, said after a meeting of the bloc’s defence ministers on Friday that it still wanted “diplomacy to work” but warned that a plan to use military force was in place if that did not succeed.
“We are determined to stop it, but Ecowas is not going to tell the coup plotters when and where we are going to strike,” Musah said. “That is an operational decision that will be taken by the heads of state.”
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