The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Omar Touray, confirmed that the regional bloc has neither declared war on the people of Niger Republic nor made any plan to invade the country.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has rejected the three-year transition plan proposed by Niger Republic’s military junta.

A delegation from regional nations arrived in Niger in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to reach a peaceful solution with mutinous soldiers who overthrew the country’s president last month, according to a report by Aljazeera last night.

The Northern Elder’s Forum (NEF) has called on President Tinubu and ECOWAS to lift the sanctions placed on Niger, adding that it will only deter the issues at hand.

Niger will be able to thwart sanctions imposed by West African bloc ECOWAS in response to last month’s coup, new Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview released Monday.

The world will only take us for who we are, and what they think we are. It makes no sense been a member of the G20 when our houses are on fire

ABUJA – A CIVIL Society Organization, CSO, One Love Foundation, OLF, Thursday, condemned threat and resolution by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to invade Niger Republic following failure of the coup plotters to relinquish power to the deposed President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum and release him and his family.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said Russia will be held accountable if the Wagner Group, a private military contractor of the Eastern European nation, violates human rights over the Niger coup.

The ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah, says the deposed Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and his son in the custody of the country’s coup leaders are living under terrible conditions.

The United States said the junta that took power in Niger Republic would be held accountable for the safety of democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum, his family, and detained members of the government.

West African military chiefs will meet on Saturday following a summit that ordered the deployment of a “standby force” in the effort to resolve the Niger crisis, regional military sources said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday voiced support for efforts of the West African bloc ECOWAS on Niger without explicitly backing its call at a summit for military intervention.

The Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, President Bola Tinubu, has affirmed the regional blocs’ commitment to peaceful return of democracy in Niger Republic.

The West African bloc ECOWAS, which on Thursday said it will muster a “standby force” against the coup leaders in Niger, has a long history of military interventions in the region.

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has deployed its standby force to restore constitutional order in Niger Republic.