France will support efforts by the West African regional grouping ECOWAS to make the military coup in Niger fail, the French foreign ministry said on Saturday.
France will support efforts by the West African regional grouping ECOWAS to make the military coup in Niger failFrench Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met with Niger Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou and the Niger ambassador in Paris on Saturday.
Earlier, Colonna said the junta in Niamey had until Sunday to hand back power, otherwise a threat by member countries of the Economic Community of West African States to stage a military intervention had to be taken “very seriously”.France did not specify whether its backing would entail military support for an ECOWAS intervention in Niger.
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