The chapter explores the ongoing political crisis in Niger, focusing on the possibility of an ECOWAS military intervention to address the military junta's control and the detained elected president.
For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a military response—the ultimate deterrent in a coup-prone region—seems small and waning. Russia’s rouble has become one of the world’s worst-performing currencies, and there are not many good options to rescue it (09:40). And a tribute to an American pioneer of consumer-product safety (16:22).
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