Defence leaders from West Africa’s Ecowas bloc began meeting in Ghana on Thursday to coordinate a potential military intervention in Niger, whose president was ousted in a coup. The talks come amid disagreement between African countries over the idea of foreign military action, after Ecowas said it would prepare a standby force to restore order in Niger.
"Democracy is what we stand for and it’s what we encourage," Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, told the meeting of the Ecowas bloc in Accra.
