outside the french embassy on sunday, protesters burned french flags and chanted anti french slogans. translation: during 12 years nothing has changed, - so this is why we took to the streets and decided to kick the president out. also let me be clear, we also send a message to france and macron, that niger belongs to us and not to him. we are free to discuss with whoever we want. is this clear? the west african bloc, ecowas, had better not try and interfere in this process. translation: should the west african bloc, ecowas, come i and intervene militarily, it would simply be on the wrong side of history, plain and simple. it would even steer them away from their core mission which is to create a stable environment for the whole region to grow. in neighbouring nigeria, the west africa regional bloc,
ecowas, met in abuja for an emergency summit. they have threatened to use force to restore constitutional order if their demands are not met within one week. the leaders of the regional bloc have also ordered the closure of all land and air borders between ecowas countries and niger and instituted a no fly zone on all commercial flights to and from the country. the transitional president of chad, mahmat idris deby, will be traveling to niamey to deliver the demands. earlier i asked political analyst niagale bagayoko about her view on the sitaution and whether or not these sanctions will have any impact. ecowas has already tried to threaten military coup perpetrators to intervene. but i think that at this time, there might be some change to