New Nigerian president and ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu has warned against coups and a 'new scramble for Africa'. However, with Nigeria cash-strapped, can it still play its traditional leading role in the region's security?
Posted on July 17, 2023 10:44
Nigerian troops arrive in Sierra Leone in February 1998 as part of a Nigerian-led West African ECOMOG peacekeeping force/Reuters In decades past, coup leaders in West Africa worried about what Nigeria thought. With Tinubu heading ECOWAS, will Abuja regain its arbiter role? “We will not allow coup after coup in the West African sub-region,” Tinubu said at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government in Guinea-Bissau. “We should serve a warning to exploiters that our people have suffered enough.”Get unlimited access to our exclusive journalism and features today. Our award-winning team of correspondents and editors report from over 54 African countries, from Cape Town to Cairo, from Abidjan to Abuja to Addis Ababa. Africa. Unlocked.
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