Ivory Coast soldiers stand guard at the entry to a school where hundreds of election workers gathered to receive $4 each as part of their payment for working in polling stations, at a school in the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Rival parties in Ivory Coast traded accusations of voter intimidation, violence and fraud on Monday, as the world's leading cocoa producer awaited results from the country's first presidential election in a decade.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Ivory Coast has announced it is ready to provide troops to the regional force to be deployed in Niger in the event of military intervention to restore constitutional order.
President Alassane Ouattara says the country has made all financial arrangements for the operation.
Other countries that have expressed their willingness to send troops into Niger include Nigeria, Senegal, and Benin.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma