Niger said Wednesday that the United States will shortly submit a proposal for its soldiers to 'disengage' from the West African country after the military regime in Niamey said it was withdrawing from a 2012 cooperation agreement with Washington.
Niger said Wednesday that the United States will shortly submit a proposal for its soldiers to "disengage" from the West African country after the military regime in Niamey said it was withdrawing from a 2012 cooperation agreement with Washington.
FitzGibbon told the minister her country had “taken note of the decision” by Niger to withdraw from the military agreement and would be “coming back with a plan” on the “methods for disengaging” the more than 1,000 American troops based in Niger, according to the ministry’s statement. Niamey’s announcement that it is breaking with the US came Saturday after a three-day visit by a senior US delegation to renew contact with the junta.
Neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso made similar moves and joined a joint defence pact with Niger, exiting the wider West African bloc ECOWAS. The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 27 cells belonging to the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra in 22 countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. IPOB is a secessionist group seeking independence from Nigeria. It is led by Nnamdi Kanu who is in detention and being tried on terrorism charges by…
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