The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said Russia will be held accountable if the Wagner Group, a private military contractor of the Eastern European nation, violates human rights over the Niger coup.
The ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily Friday.
He noted that another West African nation had a separate arrangement with the security outfit.
Musah said that the Wagner Group, apparently, is in Mali today and the Malian government says this is an agreement between them and the Russian Federation.
He said, the Private military companies were involved in Sierra Leone and they were involved in Liberia during those civil wars and even recently in the global conflict, there has been the use of private military companies.
The ECOWAS commissioner also highlighted the current involvement of the Western forces in Niger, including France and the European Union (EU), adding that the region had also seen an influx of Middle Eastern nations such as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, in like Russia and China.
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