Abidjan. West African countries have given the go-ahead to start a military intervention in Niger against the government resulting from the coup “as soon as possible,” the president of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, reported on Thursday.
“The chiefs of staff will hold other meetings to agree on the details, but they have the approval (…) of the heads of state for the operation to start as soon as possible,” Ouattara said in Abidjan, after participating in Abuja (Nigeria) in a summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
