Niamey, Niger – AFP US troops have completed a withdrawal from their base in Niger’s capital of Niamey and will fully depart from Agadez in the north before a September 15 deadline set by the country’s military rulers, both countries said Sunday. Niger’s military leaders scrapped a military cooperation deal with Washing...
Niamey, Niger – AFP The US troop withdrawal from Niger, at the demand of the West African nation’s military rulers, has begun and will be over by September 15 “at the latest”, a joint statement said Sunday. The two sides announced they had reached a disengagement agreement and US forces deployed as part of an […]
A report by Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz has alleged that the Biden administration is suppressing intelligence regarding U.S. military relations with Niger. Gaetz has claimed U.S. troops in Niger are stranded without essential support like medicine and mail. Last month, Niger’s ruling junta denounced the U.S. and announced ending the co...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least six Nigerien soldiers were killed in a landmine explosion near the border with Mali, Niger’s army has said. An army patrol vehicle “returning from Inates in the western region of Tillaberi hit an improvised explosive device” earlier this week near the village of Tingara, the Defense Ministry sai...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has urged Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to reconsider their decision to leave it. ECOWAS Commission President Omar Alieu Touray has said in a statement that the bloc needs to remain more unified than ever. “If there is a time for ECOWAS to stay […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Nigerien army has announced that all French soldiers will have left Niger by December 22nd. In a statement, the military said 1,346 French personnel and 80% of their logistics equipment have so far been disengaged from the country. “To date, only 157 French soldiers are left on our territory, including […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc decided Sunday to maintain sanctions imposed on Niger following a July military intervention that deposed elected President Mohamed Bazoum. Since the July 26 intervention, ECOWAS has imposed economic sanctions on Niger including the closure of borders ...
–Rwanda (AA) – The military administration in Niger has claimed to have foiled an attempt by deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to flee the country this week. Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, the government spokesperson, said Bazoum tried to escape in the wee hours of Thursday together with his family, two cooks, and two security personnel. “Th...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – France on Thursday said that it will start withdrawing its troops from Niger “this week.” “The disengagement of military personnel and military assets deployed in Niger begins this week. This maneuver is intended to bring back all the military personnel by the end of the year,” the French Armed Forces Ministry [&hel...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Niger’s military authorities have denied that they accepted a six-month transition period that had been proposed by Algeria, according to the Foreign Ministry. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Nigeriens Abroad was surprised to read on social networks and in certain media a communiqué f...
