ECOWAS is discussing the possibility of military intervention in Niger to deal with the revolutionaries

  West African military chiefs have agreed to a plan to intervene militarily in Niger when the time they gave to the soldiers who made the coup ends. ECOWAS Commissioner, Abdel-Fatau Musah has been quoted by regional and international media as saying in Abuja, Nigeria that: "Finally all matters related to any kind of intervention have been worked out; including the resources needed as well as how and when we will deploy the force (in Niger)." On Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave the soldiers who overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum one week to return Bazoum to power or accept the use of force against them.

The soldiers carried out the military coup on the 26th of last July. ECOWAS military chiefs had met in Nigeria's capital Abuja to discuss ways to deal with the crisis. Soldiers who made a coup in Niger In another part of his speech, Abdel-Fatau Musah said: "We want diplomacy to work, and we want this message to be clearly conveyed to the soldiers who made a coup that we give them every opportunity to change what they did."

But the military that made the coup in Niger has declared that they will fight any foreign intervention and has been holding Bazoum and his family in his official residence in Niamey for nine days now. Some governments of neighboring countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso have said that, military intervention in Niger will be the same as declaring war against them and they will not accept the country to be invaded militarily. Nigeria, which is currently the chairman of ECOWAS, maintains a strong position against the military that made a coup in the neighboring country and Niger to the extent that President Bola Tinubu has written a letter to the Senate of Nigeria asking its members to support the military intervention in Niger.