West African leaders agreed yesterday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups. The AFP news agency reports that they are ‘determined to establish a regional force that will intervene in the event of need, whether this is in the area of security, terrorism and restoring constitutional order in member countries’. Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso have all been hit by military coups in the last two years.
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