Last week, a faction of Niger’s military claimed to have overthrown the country’s democratically elected president after detaining him in his palace
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last met with Bazoum in November at a summit in Tunisia, where he praised his “leadership in progressive values” such as women’s inclusion and democracy in a region of rising authoritarianism.
Four nations are run by military governments in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020. The sanctions could be disastrous and Niger needs to find a solution to avoid them, the country’s Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou told French media outlet Radio France Internationale on Sunday.
In the 1990s, ECOWAS intervened in Liberia during its civil war. In 2017, it intervened in Gambia to prevent the new president’s predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, from disrupting the handover of power. Around 7,000 troops from Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal entered, according to the Global Observatory, which provides analysis on peace and security issues.
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