French defeat in Niger confirmed. ECOWAS lifted sanctions on Niger. About sanctions: they are just another kind of warfare, crushing entire countries, and bringing misery to ordinary people. They are intended as some kind of siege warfare, to inflict so much suffering, that people revolt and destroy their own government. It is war, pure and simple. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/24/ecowas-lifts-sanctions-on-niger-amid-tensions-in-west-africa-bloc