Niger Junta Digs in As Ecowas Ponders Next Step DeutscheWelle: WestAfrica
, which border Niger, until August 11. The French national carrier warned that some flight times would increase."I do not believe it will come to war. ECOWAS has too few capabilities and also no task force," Laessing told German news agency DPA.
"To do an operation like that would be very risky, and the chance of it going wrong is high and the question is what comes after," Laessing added. "It is right that he [President Bazoum] should be freed, but we cannot do it. The United States is very cautious about this. It is unthinkable that they would start a military intervention in Niger," Tajani added.
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