This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batsy with Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher

of Defense and Foreign Affairs. We move from the unsettled troubles, the unsettled

Niger and the troubles are deep, but the troubles in Nigeria, which is a population of

four, five, six, seven, eight more times than Niger, is also a troubled nation.

Tnubu was elected in the recent question election. He is now leading ECOWAS and called the

meeting on Thursday to talk about the revolution or whatever it is, the coup in Niger. Tnubu,

during the campaign and afterwards, was not a vivid character, has his health improved

Gregory. Not noticeably, he has put in place a team of military and civilian administrators

who definitely have a handle on the situation. We've yet to see how effective the new forces

commanders are going to be. They certainly will be an improvement, I think, on the past, but they

have to change their whole operating doctrine and culture to be effective to regain morale and

conditions for their forces. But at least there are some hope for dealings there, not with Tnubu

directly, because his health is not improved, but because of some of the officials professionals

who have been put in place. Are they capable of intervening? Is it a military that can intervene

in Niger? At the expense of dropping a lot of their activities against the insurgency groups,

who are largely in the northeast of Nigeria around my degree and the like, which is very close,

by the way, to the does touch on the border with Niger. That's why there's been the joint regional

peacekeeping operations between Niger and Nigeria and to a lesser degree, Cameroon.

So, yes, there are troops in that area, but if you commit them to fight a conventional military

war against the conventional military in Niger, I would say it would be hard. One minute, Gregory,

one minute. So at this point, do you believe Tnubu was step up with Echoos and insist or

enforce a reversal of fortune in Niger? Is that, is he capable of that? We have one minute.

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