Niger coup: West African leaders threaten military intervention
West African leaders have threatened military action against Niger's junta after it took power in a coup last week.
The leaders gave the junta seven days to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum, who is being held captive.
Earlier, the junta warned it would resist any "plan of aggression against Niger" by regional or Western powers.
Meanwhile hundreds of coup supporters protested outside the French embassy in the capital Niamey.
Leaders from Ecowas, the bloc of West African nations, held crisis talks in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday to discuss the latest coup - which follows army takeovers in neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso.
A statement read out after the summit said that Ecowas had "zero tolerance" for coups.
The regional bloc would "take all measures necessary to restore constitutional order" if its demands were not met within a week.
"Such measures may include the use of force," and military chiefs are to meet "immediately" to plan for an intervention, the statement added.
The Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel was at the meeting, and said Ecowas had taken decisive action because events in Niger were concerning.
"Niger is playing a key role in fighting terrorism. If Niger stop playing this role this will give more space and more leeway to terrorists to expand in the region," Dr Leonardo Santos Simao told BBC's Newshour programme.
He added that "no official negotiations" were taking place between Ecowas and the country's military junta.
This is the first time Ecowas has threatened military action to reverse the coups that have taken place in the region in recent years.
It last sanctioned military intervention in 2017, when Senegalese troops were deployed to The Gambia to force long-serving ruler Yahya Jammeh to leave office after he refused to accept defeat in elections.
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has gone to Niamey to tell the junta to step down, Chad's government said.
He is the first foreign leader to visit Niger since the coup, and has met junta deputy leader Gen Salifou Mody.
It is unclear whether he will hold talks with Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of the presidential guards unit who has declared himself Niger's new ruler.
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