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Weekend: Potential military action in Niger

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Potential military action in Niger

06/08/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Potential military action in Niger

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has drawn up a plan for military action if coup leaders don’t step down in the country.

Also on the programme: languages in India are being recorded with AI, and the actors strike in Hollywood enters its fourth week.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more is Shruti Kapila, a professor of history and politics at Cambridge University, who specialises in modern and contemporary India in a BBC studio in Cambridge, and Seyi Rhodes, a British TV reporter, film producer and investigative journalist in the studio.

(Photo: Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa (3-L), and the Chiefs of Defence Staff from ECOWAS countries attend a photo call at the start of the Extraordinary Meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of Chief of Defence Staff on the Political Situation in the Republic of Niger at the Defence headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria on 2 August 2023. The military leaders are discussing the political situation in Niger. Defence Chiefs from Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Guinea Bissau did not attend. Credit: EPA/STR)

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