ECOWAS is delaying. After threatening military intervention, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, also head of ECOWAS, on Thursday suggested a nine-month transition for the military in power since late July in Niger. A situation that had already arisen in Nigeria in the 1990s.
"The president sees no reason why this cannot happen again in Niger, if the military authorities in Niger are sincere," said an ECOWAS statement.
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The sanctions imposed on Niger by ECOWAS will not be eased without "positive adjustments" of the military in Niamey, it is also specified.
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