The formal arrangement is gone but if ECOWAS ends up forming an invading army wouldn’t it essentially be ECOMOG?

tbh i only learned about the ECO(xyz) organizations this year lmao

I'm not sure if they'll call it ECOMOG if they deploy forces but I wouldn't know

For all intents and purposes it'd basically be that though

english.alarabiya.net/News/north-africa/2023/08/11/ECOWAS-approves-military-intervention-in-Niger

Earlier Thursday, the leaders of the bloc said they would deploy a “standby force” against the military leaders who seized control of Niger, deposing Mohamed Bazoum as president.
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Ouattara said Ivory Coast would provide a battalion of 850 to 1,100 men alongside soldiers from Nigeria and Benin, and that other countries would join them.

I keep seeing it be considered "military intervention" approved by ECOWAS but don't know the specifics

aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/1/timeline-a-history-of-ecowas-military-interventions-in-three-decades

Posting this here for myself and any others as a brief resource

Edit: they seem to name it ECO- (insert specific acronym to the country/countries its operating in on that given mission)

How direct of a translation is that?

Dude is tripping

Need a resources list of books

hes simultaneously based and cringe

Not sure. But here is a quote from an article on it.

French President Emmanuel Macroh has boasted that without France’s military operations in the Sahel region, “there would probably no longer be a Mali…Burkina Faso, and I’m not sure there would still be Niger.”

vanguardngr.com/2023/09/there-wont-be-mali-burkina-faso-niger-without-france-macron-boasts

"These states would no longer exist today in their territorial integrity," the president said.

This article is behind a paywall, smh...but this quote showed up on google.

lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2023/08/29/macron-maintains-firm-stance-toward-junta-in-niger-risking-confrontation_6113503_124.html

It's probably some variation of that, lol.

he didn’t say that, i am francophone

also peep the readers context

true if people have recs please list them ITT

I haven’t read too many besides texts from some of my courses but if they seem solid i could put them in OP

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Neocolonialism the Highest Stage of Imperialism by Nkrumah

Added to OP with links

Real

How essential would they have been in the situation anyway?

ECOWAS could still go do s*** right? or does this signify less support for challenging the situation

Coup d'etat everywhere

It was only around 1500 troops there and supposedly they were only there for "anti-terror operations." I felt like the longer this went on, the less likely any military intervention would occur anyway. ECOWAS still has sanctions in place and that is what I think will continue...economic warfare. Overcoming sanctions will be Niger's main challenge.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/a-dozen-soldiers-killed-after-rebel-attack-in-southwest-niger

thoughts? or just business as usual

The United States, which has about 1,100 military personnel in Niger, has said it will “evaluate” its future steps following France’s announcement that its troops would withdraw.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/wife-of-deposed-gabonese-president-arrested-for-money-laundering

The wife of Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband.

Sylvia Bongo Valentin has been under house arrest in the capital since her husband was overthrown on August 30, moments after being proclaimed the winner in a presidential election. Her eldest son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has already been charged with corruption.

The former first lady was charged by an investigating judge on Thursday, prosecutor Andre Patrick Roponat announced on state TV channels on Friday. Her house arrest order has also been upheld, Roponat said.

One of her lawyers said earlier this month that she was being kept “incommunicado outside any legal framework”.

The Bongos’ son, Noureddin, has already been charged with corruption and embezzling public funds with several former cabinet members and two ex-ministers.

Ali Bongo took over when his father Omar died in 2009 after nearly 42 years in power. Now 64, Bongo ruled the country until his overthrow this August after the presidential election.

The election result was branded a fraud by the opposition and the military coup leaders, who have also accused his government of widespread corruption and bad governance.