In Niger, regardless of financial sanctions and threats of navy intervention over the previous 16 days, the coup leaders have proven no signal of releasing the detained president and restoring the democratic authorities. The Ecowas group of West African leaders met in Abuja yesterday to work out what to do, in a single day they’ve declared {that a} stand by navy power is being assembled to revive constituional order. Ecowas remains to be saying it hopes for a diplomatic answer. Europe and the US have reiterated calls to discover a peaceable path to resolve this. In the meantime, the UN has voiced fears for the well being, of the president Mohamed Bazoum. FRANCE 24’s Charlotte Hughes and Maya-Anaïs Yataghène inform us extra.
