The two-day deadline given to Sylvain Itte to leave the country expired on Sunday.
Niger’s military administration also cut off water and electricity to the French consulate in Zinder.
The country’s leadership has also taken similar action at the French consulate in Zinder, the reports said. In addition, any partners who continue to help the French in the process of supplying the goods and services will be considered “enemies of the sovereign people,” the reports added. Amid tensions that have risen in the weeks following the ouster of the West African nation’s democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum, the administration’s foreign ministry gave ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to “leave Nigerien territory.”
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