ECOWAS commissioner for peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, said 11 of its 15 member states agreed to commit troops to a military deployment.
He said they were “ready to go” whenever the order was given.
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria has warned against military intervention in Niger Republic in a bid to restore democracy following the July 26 coup d'etat that ousted the country's president Mohamed Bazoum.
A statement issued by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad on Saturday said military intervention in Niger will bring more problems than solutions, and also worsen terrorism in the West African region.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions and threatened military action against Niger coup leaders if they failed to reinstate Bazoum as president. It has however also said it would explore the path of diplomacy to resolve the political crisis.
But on Friday, the ECOWAS commissioner for peace and security, Abdel-Fatau Musah, said 11 of its 15 member states agreed to commit troops to a military deployment.
He said they were “ready to go” whenever the order was given.
However, the Algerian government has called for caution in resolving the issue.
"At a time when the military intervention in Niger is taking shape, Algeria deeply regrets that recourse to violence has taken precedence over the path to a negotiated political solution peacefully restoring constitutional and democratic order in this brotherly and neighbor," the statement said.
"Algeria remains, in fact, driven by a strong conviction that this negotiated political solution is still possible, that all the paths that can lead to it have not been taken and that all these possibilities have not been exhausted.
"The history of our region teaches abundantly that military interventions have brought more problems than solutions and that they have been additional factors of confrontation and heartbreak rather than sources of stability and security.
"Before the irreparable is committed, and before the region is caught in the spiral of violence whose incalculable consequences no one can predict, Algeria calls on all parties to exercise restraint, wisdom and reason which all call for resolutely giving the highest priority to the negotiated political option of the current constitutional crisis, thus sparing brotherly Niger and the whole of the region a future fraught with threats and perils, including in particular a renewed vigor and aggressiveness of terrorism and other forms of crime which seriously affect the region."