Guinea: Unease over coup ripples through West Africa
By DW
08 September 2021 |
11:37 am
West Africa's leaders will hold an emergency ECOWAS summit on Guinea on Wednesday amid fears the military takeover could spark further instability in the region. But ECOWAS faces its own credibility problem.
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