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A beacon of democracy in the sahel region considering similar coups had happened in neighbouring mali and burkina faso and it was looking as though niger was the only country in the sahel region that had a stable democracy but ecowas heads of state have said they want this decision to be obtained before the deadline else they want to explore other options including a military intervention. in terms of the efficacy of ecowas, have they deployed to western african countries in the past and what wa...

Unrest has erupted in the west African state since he was overthrown.

Niger's junta on Friday revoked a draft of military cooperation agreements with France – a move that could drastically reshape a fight against Islamist insurgents in the region – as ousted President Mohamed…

Much has been said about the economic, political, and cultural aspects of what has been happening in France. These are true. But there is also a moral dimension to the issue. Moralizing, making moral judgments, is not a stance I particularly embrace. However, if evaluations based on economic, political, and cultural codes do not lead to a moral dimension, then they lose their value. Being right is a positional certainty. At a certain moment, it is possible to make a declaration of being right ba...

France on Friday rejected a move by Niger's junta to scrap bilateral military pacts, saying only the west African country's "legitimate" leadership was entitled to do so. Meanwhile a regional Ecowas delegation…

The overthrown president of Niger, detained by soldiers at the presidential palace in Niamey for the past week, is speaking out via the Washington Post . "I write this...

ECOWAS gave the junta General Abdourahmane Tchian one week to restore power or face the potential use of force.

Ousted Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum published his first statement since the military coup as a column for the Washington Post on Thursday.

Niger is a significant uranium producer and lies on a key migration route to North Africa and the Mediterranean.

On the west african regional bloc to see what it can do to try and turn events around in niger. so it sent two high—level delegations to the country over the past week. first of all, there was the chadian president, mohamed idriss deby, who was there to meet with the military chiefs and now a nigerian—led delegation. but as these talks were happening, military chiefs from west africa were actually meeting in neighbouring nigeria. and there, they were drawing up potential plans for a military...