Nigeria and African continental War incoming?

[Pyperkub]

This sounds ugly and could expand. It won't get the same attention as Ukraine, but could become a continent-wide war (which has long felt to me as if it has been building towards that), fueled by local warlords, Russian mercenaries, etc. :

The West African bloc ECOWAS stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss the details of a standby force.

Niger military officers deposed President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and have defied calls from the United Nations, ECOWAS and Western powers to reinstate him, prompting West African heads of state to order the standby force to be assembled.

"Let no one be in doubt that if everything else fails, the valiant forces of West Africa...are ready to answer to the call of duty," ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Abdel-Fatau Musah said.

"By all means available, constitutional order will be restored in the country," he told assembled defence chiefs from member countries, listing past ECOWAS deployments in Gambia, Liberia and elsewhere as examples of readiness.

Niger has strategic importance beyond West Africa because of its role as a hub for foreign troops involved in the fight against Islamist insurgents in the Sahel region and its uranium and oil reserves.

Western countries fear the junta could follow the lead of neighbouring Mali, where the military government threw out French troops and instead invited in mercenaries from Russia's Wagner group, which has welcomed the coup in Niger.

[Smoove_B]

My dude.

[stessier]

Niger and Nigeria are two separate places.

[Kurth]

I feel bad for this thread. Someone say something nice about it.

[Kraken]

I feel bad for this thread. Someone say something nice about it.

It meant well.

[Kurth]

I feel bad for this thread. Someone say something nice about it.

It meant well.

Yep. It had fun. It tried its best. And it was a team player.