West African states have given the coup leaders in Niger a one-week ultimatum to give up power. The president of neighboring Chad has traveled to Niger in a bid to resolve the crisis. ECOWAS, a bloc of 15 West African states, is threatening to use force if Niger’s ousted elected president is not reinstated. But public sympathy appears to favor the coup leaders.

Our correspondent Olisa Chukwumah is following developments from Lagos in neighboring Nigeria

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