France will help efforts by the West African regional grouping ECOWAS to make the army coup in Niger fail, the French international ministry mentioned on Saturday.
French Overseas Minister Catherine Colonna met with Niger Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou and the Niger ambassador in Paris on Saturday.
Earlier, Colonna mentioned the junta in Niamey had till Sunday handy again energy, in any other case a risk by member nations of the Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS) to stage a army intervention needed to be taken “very significantly”.
“The risk is credible,” she mentioned on French public radio.
France didn’t specify whether or not its backing would entail army help for an ECOWAS intervention in Niger.
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