The Algerian regime has openly expressed its firm opposition to any military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the putschists who toppled elected President Mohamed Bazoum.

Algeria says it opposes any military operation in Niamey for security reasons due to the fragile and instable situation in the Sahel. But in reality, the ruling Algerian junta fears that such as military action will enhance the influence of neighboring Morocco.

According to a report by online “Maghreb Intelligence” magazine, ECOWAS includes many friends and allies of Morocco such as Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Benin …This makes the ruling Algerian junta extremely nervous over a military action that will bring in geopolitical changes consolidating Morocco’s regional power.

Algerian intelligence reports say Morocco can provide logistical support and valuable intelligence to facilitate ECOWAS military operation, sending shockwaves across the Algerian military establishment.

As the pressure is building from the US, France and the EU, the UN, African Union and ECOWAS, the military option is gaining steam, making the Algerian regime facing their worst nightmare.

Following the West African leaders meeting held Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria, President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire said the West African bloc has approved military intervention in Niger “as soon as possible” to remove its military rulers following last month’s coup. “We are determined to restore president Bazoum to his functions.”

Earlier, in Abuja, ECOWAS Commission President Omar Touray had announced the deployment of the bloc’s force.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for a non-violent solution to reverse the coup, praising the “determination of ECOWAS to explore all options for the peaceful resolution of the crisis.”

The West African bloc is “playing a key role in making clear the imperative of a return to constitutional order in Niger, and we very much support ECOWAS’ leadership and work on this,” said Secretary Blinken.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Secretary met in Washington with Algerian FM Ahmed Attaf to discuss bilateral relations and consult on shared efforts to de-escalate conflict and “advance regional stability, including in the Sahel,” according to a press release issued by the State Department.

The question now is whether the putschists back down and will the West leave the Sahel, allowing the Jihadists to take control over the sub-Saharan region.

The U.S. has 1,100 US troops at two military bases, including the massive drone base at Agades, while France has 2,500 soldiers who have re-deployed from Mali as the Nigerien army would not be able to stem the two jihadist advances. These are: from Nigeria’s Boko Haram in the southeast; and the Islamic State affiliated État islamique dans le Grand Sahara (EIGS) in the southwest’s ‘three borders’ Liptako-Gourma region. Both could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists.

Some experts say Niger could be fragmented along north-south lines, following a rebellion by the Agades region against the county’s new rulers.

Agades is Africa’s largest single administrative region and already enjoys a considerable degree of autonomy from Niamey which is around 1,000 kms away. Its predominantly Tuareg population, plus a few small Arab and Toubou-Teda tribes, is very supportive of President Mohamed Bazoum. Tension is always brewing between Agades and Niamey.

According to Western intelligence reports, if the Nigerien military putschists remain in power and if there is an increasing Russian presence as there has been in Mali and Burkina Faso, the scenario of civil war and Agades’ breakaway, like Azawad in neighboring Mali, is very likely. This means that Algeria has also to face Azawad rebels seeking their independence and lands taken during French colonial era.

https://northafricapost.com/70307-niger-algeria-fears-moroccos-influence-could-be-strengthened-by-ecowas-military-operation.html

MMWandali:
No to war

Democracy is not by force

Afterall no democracy is perfect

The people's wish is greater than democracy

Ikaeniyan0:
If the juntas in Niger refuse to leave power, the tuaregs and arabs in the northern part of niger might eventually declare independent.

There was a time Morocco wanted to join ECOWAS, what's the latest about the news?

orisa37:
MOROCCO, THE ONE THAT SNUBBED JONATHAN AND MADE JONATHAN LOOKED UNWANTED EMISSARY.

IhateYouMan:


Correct

favor914:
cc: mmwandali, can you hypocritically justify this also, since the peoples’s wish is greater than democracy, & by force military rule?

MMWandali:

Just like Biafrans want to be free and independent likewise let the Tuaregs be independent if they wish

Mind you I am a northerner

favor914:
Who are biafrans, free from what or who? Please go and read history correctly.

Biafrans are the riverine people, I.e. Ibibios, Kalibaris, ijaws, Ikwerres, never have I heard any of those tribes say anything about been independent, other than been independent from the oppressive tribe of the hinterland, that used their identity in disguise to fight a civil war, because the real biafrans wanted their freedom from them.

BoldBrainz:


That's the irony of this entire scenario.

The Bight of Biafra is originally a geographical concept of the riverine states of the Niger Delta. How history has been so twisted to the point that Igbos are now telling an entirely different story and even trying to hold the SS to ransom just to actualize their biafra, is something that befuddles sane minds.

BoldBrainz:


That's the irony of this entire scenario.

The Bight of Biafra is originally a geographical concept of the riverine states of the Niger Delta. How history has been so twisted to the point that Igbos are now telling an entirely different story and even trying to hold the SS to ransom just to actualize their biafra, is something

that befuddles sane minds.

ebufa:






Gold coast took the name of Ghana empire in present day Mali........Abyssinia took the name of Ethiopia( ancient name of Africa) .....Republic of Benin took the name of Benin empire......of present day Edo state in Nigeria! Why can't ndigbo take Biafra.........which was the original homeland of all Bantu peoples in Africa! In case you do not know the Igbo DNA is closer to the Bantus of Congo,south Africa and East Africa than any other tribe in Nigeria!

favor914:
The great Bob Marley best said it, “ You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time”.

History is there, for everyone to study, Odumegwu Ojukwu stole a Peoples identity, & used it for his own selfish interest to perpetrate a crime against humanity.

Why? Because the same riverine people who were the masters centuries earlier by way of early contact with the Portuguese & British & had now lost their might in present times, where tired of been slaves to the hinterland tribes of Aro Chukwu, & wanted their freedom, which Ojukwu & Co were not ready to surrender.

Hence a war for freedom broke out, which the Nigerian Government won, giving rise to Rivers & Cross Rivers State.

favor914:
Who are biafrans, free from what or who? Please go and read history correctly.

Biafrans are the riverine people, I.e. Ibibios, Kalibaris, ijaws, Ikwerres, never have I heard any of those tribes say anything about been independent, other than been independent from the oppressive tribe of the hinterland, that used their identity in disguise to fight a civil war, because the real biafrans wanted their freedom from them.

BoldBrainz:
How exactly did I not know that the Algerian government is a military one until today?!

RightToReject:


Military what? It operates a dual executive republic - a semi-presidential system - which is still a type of democracy.

Ikaeniyan0:
If the juntas in Niger refuse to leave power, the tuaregs and arabs in the northern part of niger might eventually declare independent.

There was a time Morocco wanted to join ECOWAS, what's the latest about the news?

greatness77:
na EU they wan join, they said they are not black

BoldBrainz:
How exactly did I not know that the Algerian government is a military one until today?!