ECOWAS used military force in 6 countries before Niger - Statistics At the same time that the attention was raised after the decision of th...
ECOWAS used military force in 6 countries before Niger - Statistics
At the same time that the attention was raised after the decision of the ECOWAS group to use military force to restore civil rule in the Republic of Niger, some figures have gathered how the group in the past has used force to restore democracy in other countries. 6 of the African continent.
Since 32 years ago, the ECOWAS group started using military power to ensure the return of democracy in countries, where in 1990 the 15-member group put together a special force consisting of about 20 thousand troops, mostly Nigerian soldiers who did war in Liberia with the aim of ending the civil war that the country fought, which by 1997 they managed to return the country under democratic rule after conducting elections.
In 1997, ECOWAS again sent troops to Sierra Leone, which eliminated the military that had staged a coup and returned President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to his seat. peace in the country in 2000.
In 1999, ECOWAS sent troops to Guinea Bissau after the army overthrew the government of Joao Bernado Vieira, while even in Ivory Coast in 2003, 1,300 troops were seen to stop the country's civil war.
Similarly, in 2013, ECOWAS sent troops to Mali to fight against the rebels before ending the operation of the army last June.
In addition, the ECOWAS forces anchored in The Gambia in 2017 when Yahya Jammeh refused to step down to replace the elected President Adama Barrow.