ECOWAS offers the military in Niger a 9-month transition period

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The agency said ECOWAS Chairman and Nigerian President Bola Tinubu had offered a nine-month transition period to the rebels in Niger. AFP.

Details of the offer are unknown.

According to him, ECOWAS’ sanctions on Niger will not be eased without “positive regulations” by the military.

Formerly Ivan Loshkarev, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO declarationHe said the lack of force and military equipment would prevent the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) states from intervening in Niger.

He added that the distance between settlements in the country will also be an obstacle for ECOWAS.

On 26 August, the Chief of the Niger Defense Staff ordered the troops to be on maximum alert.

On July 26, Niger President Mohamed Bazum and his wife were detained by their own bodyguards. On the night of July 27, the country’s Armed Forces stopped the work of all state institutions in the country, imposed a curfew and closed the borders. At the same time, the rebels in Niger ensured the physical integrity of the displaced government.

Previously in Niger saidwhere the rebels hold the president.

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