Due to the continuous attacks in the nation, the government has encouraged Ghanaian traders to stop doing business there. This comes after unidentified assailants recently shot and set a truck driven by a Ghanaian in Burkina Faso ablaze. Also, near the Burkina-Faso border, three vehicles carrying food supplies from Niger to Ghana were set on fire.
The Deputy Minister of Defense, Kofi Amankwaa Manu, warned, “Obviously once it is outside the jurisdiction of the discussion, it becomes difficult, especially, with all the noise in the sub-region. I don’t think the citizens in Niger are safe. With the coup, uncertainties, and soldiers doing what they want, they are not safe. Coupled with the fact that some countries have also closed borders with them. There have been sanctions and all that, but they are not too certain as to what tomorrow is bringing them. So at this time, it is difficult, so it’s not even safe for anybody to go there to do business. Once you get to the borders, you don’t have control over what happens in the jurisdiction of Burkina Faso." "What a Ghanaian security person can do is to help our traders to the Ghanaian border with Burkina and help them over. We all know the situation in Niger, you don’t need a scientist to tell you what’s happening in Niger, and so it’s very difficult for one to now go to Niger to do business. Everyone will have to be careful”.
Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, the leader of the coup in Niger, has issued an order permitting the military governments of Mali and Burkina Faso to send troops into his nation to assist in defending against an invasion.
Following their Thursday visits to Gen. Tchiani in Niamey, the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Olivia Rouamba, and Mali, Abdoulaye Diop, made the statement. In order to restore Mohamed Bazoum, the democratically elected president of Niger, who was ousted by a handful of army officers last month, the West African regional grouping Ecowas has vowed to use force.
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