ECOWAS commissioner for peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, said at a news conference on Friday that troops were 'ready to go'.
Abdel-Fatau Musah speaks during a news briefing following a meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of the Defence Staff. Pic: AP
Soldiers from 11 West African nations are"ready" to be sent into coup-hit Niger to restore ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, officials have said., led by the Economic Community of West African States . "We are ready to go anytime the order is given," the ECOWAS commissioner for peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, said in Ghana's capital, Accra, on Friday.However, he did not give details of when the operation could be launched.
The latter two have warned they will consider any military intervention in Niger by the bloc as an act of war.The 11 countries that have committed troops make up the active members of ECOWAS, including Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana. ECOWAS has previously threatened military intervention unless coup leaders reinstate democratically elected President Bazoum - who was overthrown by members of the presidential guard on 26 July.
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