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ECOWAS chairman, President Bola Tinubu said the only option to be taken regarding the coup in Niger, when others have been exhausted is the military option.

General Abdulsalami Abubakar revealed that the military leaders in Niger have insisted that returning the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum into power won't work

The junta’s foreign ministry said the decision to expel the ambassador was a response to actions taken by the French government that were “contrary to the interests of Niger.”

Niger’s junta authorized troops from neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso to come to its defense and asked the French ambassador to leave the country Friday.

Some civil society organisations have stated that leaders in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have failed to stand for fair and credible elections and their lack of respect for democratic tenets coupled with extreme poverty and corruption is the main cause of military coups in the African sub-region.

Rest of World News: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has rejected the proposal by Niger's mutinous soldiers for a three-year transition to democrati

The junta's foreign ministry said the decision to expel the ambassador was a response to actions taken by the French government that were "contrary to the interests of Niger."

The door for diplomacy with Niger’s junta remained open but the bloc is not going to engage in drawn-out talks.

“Neither the military junta nor the people of Niger want war and remain open to dialogue”.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The Economic Community of West African States has rejected the Niger junta’s objective for a transition if power presumably to a democratic government within three years. “Our ambition is not to confiscate power,” the Head of the military junta, General Abdourahamane Tiani said in a televised address. Any transition of power “would