France will support the efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to overturn the military coup in Niger, the French Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday.
The idea was expressed in the context of a meeting between French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, Niger's Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, and the Niger ambassador in Paris.
Previously, Colonna had already declared that the Niamey junta had until Sunday to hand back power.