On Sunday at an emergency meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, the West African ECOWAS bloc said it was suspending relations with Niger and authorized the use of force if the president was not reinstated within a week.
The French embassy in Niger is attacked as protesters waving Russian flags march through the capital
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“If the junta were to dig in its heels and rally the populace around the flag - possibly even arming civilian militias - the intervention could morph into a multifaceted counterinsurgency that ECOWAS would not be prepared to handle,” said a report by the Hudson Institute.
Niger's junta rulers ask for help from Russian group Wagner as it faces military intervention threat
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