Military chiefs from the Economic Community of West African States will meet in Ghana on Thursday and Friday to discuss a possible military intervention in Niger, regional military and political sources say.
According to Aljazeera, the German government has also joined calls for the immediate release of the outsed President Mohamed Bazoum.
The meeting was called after the bloc’s leaders last week approved the deployment of a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger, whose elected president was toppled by the military on July 26.
The meeting was originally scheduled for Saturday in Accra but was postponed to this week as ECOWAS continues efforts to negotiate with the Abdourahmane Tchiani-led military government in Niamey.
International concern is mounting for Bazoum, his wife and son, who have been held at the president’s official residence since the coup.
