Niger is a powder keg whose fuse can hardly be imagined how the wick will be defused. A military confrontation to try to restore the regime of Mohamed Bazoum would plunge part of the continent - well beyond the Sahelian strip - into chaos. Contagious, the disorder would spread at high speed in countries with fragile governments and eruptive opinions. It would also serve the expansionist ambitions of the jihadists.
If, on the other hand, the mediation led by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) were to achieve its ends peacefully, the legitimacy of the president put back in the saddle in Niamey could only be precarious. This means that the fate of a country and a region of the world is currently at stake. And, with it, that of France in Africa and its credibility on the international scene. Everyone knows that the mission of ECOWAS, an organization with relative authority, is largely supported by Paris.
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