A series of recent coups across West Africa has demonstrated the emergence of an anti-Western political ‘ecosystem’, a trend that might further spread across the region, experts say.
The Niger coup has shown that anti-Western sentiments across West Africa have become a growing political reality, according to experts.
While military leaderships in West African countries are capitalising on anti-Western sentiments, ECOWAS is perceived as pro-Western, Louati tellsDespite the fact that being against coups provides a better political and legal argument to ECOWAS, the pro-Western label has its own disadvantages, he says.
Richard Falk, a leading expert on international affairs, describes recent military interventions in the Sahel West African region as “anti-colonial coups”. Falk believes that “any intervention by ECOWAS or France would violate international law and the UN Charter, absent a Security Council authorisation, which is highly unlikely, given the attitudes of Russia and China.”
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