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2024-05-20 Africa North
Niger and the United States agree on the timing of the withdrawal of American troops
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] American troops will leave Niger no later than mid-September, the National Council for the Defense of the Fatherland (CNSP) of the African country announced on the social network X on May 19.

The National Council informed that the Pentagon and the Niger Ministry of National Defense have been negotiating since May 15 and today reached an agreement.
In only four days? Impressive.
“It has been decided that this disengagement will be completed by September 15, 2024 at the latest,” the CNSP quoted the two countries as saying.

The authorities of the republic gave the Americans permission to fly and land military aircraft. The withdrawal of the American military contingent has already begun.

As Regnum reported, on May 8, in the Senate, American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced plans to withdraw troops from Niger. He did not give a time frame. Two days later, Politico reported that the Pentagon had ordered all troops to leave Niger in the coming months. We are talking about a thousand military personnel.

The Niger authorities in mid-March deprived the American military of the opportunity to be on its territory, breaking the military agreement with the United States. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, Mohamed Tumba, Niger is interested in the country’s troops being trained by the Russian, and not the American, military.

A month and a half later, on May 3, Reuters reported that the Russian military entered the air base in Niamey, which is why the American contingent based in the republic declared increased combat readiness.
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