PLAY PODCASTS
ECOWAS threatens action over Niger coup

ECOWAS threatens action over Niger coup

ECOWAS has threatened to use force if President Bazoum is not restored

Focus on Africa · BBC World Service

July 31, 202326m 52s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (open.live.bbc.co.uk) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

West African regional body ECOWAS has threatened a military response to the coup in Niger, if deposed president Mohamed Bazoum is not reinstated within a week.

Plus, we look at the impact of Kenya suspending the reopening of its border with Somalia after 11 years of closure, due to attacks by al-Shabab militants. And we look at the impact of South Africa adopting sign language as the country’s twelfth official language.