Explainer-What are West Africa's options to reverse Niger's coup?

FILE PHOTO: A member of the ECOWAS regional force is seen at Denton check point in Banjul, Gambia January 22, 2017. Picture taken January 22, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

DAKAR (Reuters) - West African defence chiefs have made a plan for potential military intervention to reverse last week's coup in Niger, including how and when to deploy forces, a leader of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Friday.

ECOWAS has given the junta until Sunday to reinstate ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, raising the spectre of further conflict in a region already struggling with a deadly Islamist insurgency.