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The John Batchelor Show

#ECOWAS: IN FAILURE. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#ECOWAS: IN FAILURE. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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0:53.6

It's about keeping

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0:59.6

I'm a job bachelor with my colleague Gregory Copley, rushing to West Africa. Eco Wasp was the

1:05.0

transnational organization that was said to be developing the economies of Western African states.

1:11.9

Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoorg, Ghana, Togo, Mali, Niger, and especially Nigeria.

1:18.6

But the report that Gregory files with one of his colleagues is about Nigeria's internal security collapsing or near-to- collapse.

1:27.9

There are a lot of explanations,

1:29.8

but one of them has to be with Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali,

1:34.6

have all shed their democratic camouflage and have gone strong man,

1:39.5

although all of them are also targets for what remains of the jihadists in West Africa,

1:48.2

rising all the time in conflict with what apparently is also an ISIS element.

1:54.3

Gregory, my scorecard's all marked up.

1:56.6

Let's concentrate on Nigeria.

1:58.7

Does it have the wherewithal to defend itself from the incursion

2:03.0

of the jihadists? It certainly does. Nigeria is largest population in Africa. It's the largest

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