Nigerien junta leader General Abdourahmane Tchiani will on Saturday host Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traore and Mali’s Colonel Assimi Goita as part of initial talks for the three junta leaders to form their own little regional bloc of West African juntas, BBC News reports.
Top on the agenda will be security as all three military dictatorships seized power in response to democratically-elected governments’ failures to quell jihadist violence, but the cooperation won’t stop there as the neighboring countries will also look at launching a new common currency, maybe calling it JuntaBux or something funny like that, as well as leaving their current larger regional bloc, ECOWAS. The BBC notes that the three juntas have so far failed to contain ISIS.