History of ECOWAS Military intervention in members state

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HISTORY OF ECOWAS INTERVENTION IN MEMBERS STATES 

By Babajide Razak Dada 


 The recent mutiny in Niger has created mixed feelings towards the ultimatum given by the economic community of west Africa ( ECOWAS ) Head of government in subsequent meetings held in Abuja with recent declaration of military invasion if the junta refused to reinstate Bazoume the deposed president of the country .

In Nigeria there was mix feelings by the people in Nigeria involvement in the process in an advent a military intervention with a notion that the county government has no business to intervene in the affairs of a sovereign state as Niger who shares boundaries with Nigeria and some west African states due to the enormous economic challenges and insurgents in the country  .

The country leadership explained it wasn't a Nigeria decision despite her president Bola Ahmed Tinubu being the chairman of ECOWAS but collective decision of the organisation .

Below is the history of times ECOWAS has intervened in the members state using military force to achieve it's aim

SIX TIMES ECOWAS INTERVENED IN MEMBERS STATES 

ECOWAS

THE Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has a long history of military interventions in the region.

The West African bloc, on Thursday, August 10, 2023, activated a “standby force” against the coup leaders in Niger Republic.

Though the military junta of the Niger Republic has formed a cabinet, days after sacking the democratically elected government of Mohamed Bazoum, ECOWAS has threatened to ensure Bazoum is reinstated.

This will be among the intervention of ECOWAS in member states if it decides to go ahead with its plan.

The 15-member state, which is dominated by Nigeria, has previously sent troops into several member states since 1990.

LIBERIA

Its first foray into military intervention took place on August 1990.

ECOWAS members assembled a force of several hundred men to intervene in Liberia’s brutal civil war.

The Nigerian-dominated force grew to nearly 20,000 soldiers.

In 1997, it also carried out a major disarmament operation, paving the way for multi-party elections.

The last ECOWAS soldiers left Liberia in October 1999 but four years later, the bloc intervened again after a second civil war broke out.

The ECOWAS mission later led to a UN peacekeeping operation.

SIERRA LEONE

In May 1997, ECOWAS forces were deployed in neighbouring Sierra Leone when a civil war broke out in the country.

The ECOWAS forces were able to drive out the military junta and reinstated President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

Also in 1999, they repelled a rebel offensive on the capital Freetown.

It was, however, replaced by a UN peacekeeping force in 2000.

GUINEA BISSAU

Another intervention of ECOWAS took place in the former Portuguese colony of Guinea Bissau in 1999 after an army coup ousted President Joao Bernardo Vieira.

Several months later, the force withdrew after failing to prevent Vieira’s overthrow.

In May 2012, ECOWAS troops returned twice to help the political transition after another coup took place.

It also returned to the troubled country in 2022 after a failed putsch that claimed 11 lives.

IVORY COAST

A 1,300-strong West African force was deployed in January 2003, after a civil war in Ivory Coast.

In 2004, the ECOWAS soldiers got integrated into the UN’s mission in the country.

MALI

In January 2013, ECOWAS sent a military force to Mali under a United Nations resolution to help drive out the Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists who overran the country’s north.

In July 2013, the 6,300-strong ECOWAS force was absorbed by the UN’s MINUSMA stabilisation force in Mali.

MINUSMA ended its operations in June 2023, after being pushed out by an anti-Western military junta.

GAMBIA

In January 2017, troops from five African nations gathered on the borders of the tiny coup-prone state of The Gambia to pressure strongman Yahya Jammeh to stand down after losing the presidential elections to Adama Barrow

Two days later, Jammeh agreed to go into exile in Equatorial Guinea, ending six weeks of crisis.At Barrow’s request, the ECOWAS mission remained in The Gambia.



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