18/10/2023 (Agence Europe) – The European Union is setting up a humanitarian airlift for Niger – a country that has been under a total blockade by ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) and UEMOA (the West African Economic and Monetary Union) since the military coup on 26 July. Four flights carrying a total of 58 tonnes of essential supplies are planned for humanitarian partners on the ground, the Commission announced on Wednesday 18 October, adding that the first...