Force. What does that mean . Correspondence say its a relatively smalljoint Military Force put on alert. Most likely to secure nigers borders. West African Leaders is a dialogue with the leaders of this Military Coup will be the bedrock of the approach that they take to this crisis. Well, basically, one of the major decisions was the, despite all and open, including the option of Military Force as a last resort. They have now ordered the activation of the Standby Force. When this is going to start, we dont know. One of the other things that the us leaders have done is to reiterate their condemnation of the coup in niger as well as the continued detention of president mohamed bazoum. They also condemned the condition in which they say the president and his family have been kept and they are insisting that all the measures that have been put in place earlier, including a resolution as well as Border Closure and restriction of movement, will remain in force while they explore every means
again, apart from the other states which have declared that they are willing to support knee jerk, to support niger, including burkina faso and mali, but the rest of them would essentially be contributing troops and of course financial resources to back a military intervention. but like i also mentioned earlier, nigeria would very likely be leading this intervention because it s got the largest military force in the region. and of course, also the economic strength to provide financial resources required for military intervention. but it s also important to bear in mind. currently, nigeria s saddled with its own challenges, which also includes efforts to re engineer its economy on the one hand, and also the fact that also struggling with its own cases of insecurity. so, the ability at the moment to spearhead or lead a military intervention is not guaranteed now, of course. and i m not going to ask you to predict the future,
أدانت منظمة الأمم المتحدة للطفولة "اليونيسف" قتل الأطفال في النيجر واعتبرته انتهاكا جسيما لحقوقهم، داعية إلى حماية المدنيين، معربة عن صدمة وغضب عميقين إزاء الهجمات المروعة على الأطفال والأسر من قبل جماعات مسلحة مجهولة الهوية في غرب النيجر.