Sub-Saharan Africa: Disagreements Over Niger's Coup Threaten to Fracture ECOWAS

The junta-led Burkinabe and Malian governments, which are currently suspended from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), jointly said they would exit the bloc if it or France began a military operation in Niger to combat the country's July 26 coup, Jeune Afrique reported on July 31....