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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - La crue exceptionnelle des cours d'eau, dûe aux fortes pluies qui s'abattent sur les pays du Sahel depuis juin, a encerclé cette semaine la capitale du Niger, Niamey, presque entièrement coupée du reste du pays. Les principales voies de sortie de cette ville d'environ un million et demi d'habitants, située au sud du Sahara, ont été submergées par les eaux et le nombre de sinistrés est monté à 11.500 pour Niamey seulement, selon le dernier bilan officiel. En moins de trois mois, les inondations ont fait 217 morts et 200 blessés dans cet immense pays désertique et plus de ...
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A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighbouring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government. The 1,930-kilometer pipeline runs from Niger’s Chinese-built Agadem oil field to the port of Cotonou in Benin. It was formally launched at the end of last year and is designed to help the oil-rich but landlocked Niger achieve an almost fivefold increase in oil production through a €373 million deal signed in April with China’s ...
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Abidjan (AFP) - A US delegation is discussing the withdrawal of its troops from military-led Niger as Washington prepares to abandon its strategic position in the Sahel where Russia and Iran are gaining ground. The demand for US troops to exit comes after French troops were also forced to withdraw last year by Niger's new ruling generals following a July coup. Niger announced in March it was ending a military cooperation agreement with Washington, claiming the presence of US soldiers was now "illegal". The country has been a key base for counter-terrorism operations in West Africa, with a majo...
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Abidjan (AFP) - The United States is still talking with Niger about the withdrawal of 1,000 American military personnel, and decisions will be announced in the coming weeks, the US Africom commander said on Monday. There were "still discussions ... between the US and Niger, the governing body there in Niger," General Michael Langley told a press conference. "Decisions will be made public in the coming weeks," the Africa Command chief said in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan. Niger's military junta, which seized power last July, announced in March it was ending a military cooperation agreement ...
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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - Thousands of people in Niger's capital on Saturday protested for the immediate departure of US soldiers from the north, after the military junta in Niamey said it was withdrawing from a military agreement with Washington. Following a July coup, the West African country said in mid-March that the 2012 cooperation agreement had been "unilaterally imposed" by the United States. Students and several prominent figures from the military regime were amongst the crowd in front of the National Assembly Headquarters in Niamey. The crowd was heard chanting "Down with American im...
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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - The United States said Monday it will "evaluate" its next steps on the crisis in Niger after France announced a full troop withdrawal as demanded by the nation's military coup leaders. France fields 1,500 soldiers in Niger as part of an anti-jihadist deployment in the Sahel region and the United States 1,100 military personnel. "While we give diplomacy a chance, we will also continue to evaluate any future steps that would prioritise both our diplomatic and security goals," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters in Nairobi. He stressed Washington had "not made ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is moving some of its troops from a base in Niger's capital Niamey -- where rebel officers seized power in a July coup -- to another in the Agadez area, the Pentagon said Thursday. Washington has some 1,100 military personnel in the country, but the Defense Department says they have largely remained on bases while curtailing activities such as joint training after the military takeover in Niger. The United States "is repositioning some of our personnel and some of our assets from Air Base 101 in Niamey to Air Base 201 in Agadez," Deputy Pentagon Press Secre...
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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - Niger's new military ruler warned Saturday that any attack on the country would not be a "walk in the park", as a delegation from West African countries made a final push to find a diplomatic solution following last month's coup. General Abdourahamane Tiani -- who took power after army officers toppled Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 -- said in a televised address that a transition of power would not go beyond three years. But he added: "If an attack were to be undertaken against us, it will not be the walk in the park some people seem to think." He spoke aft...
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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - Nigeria's president has not ruled out military intervention in neighbouring Niger after its president was ousted in a coup but believes diplomacy is the "best way forward" to resolve the crisis, his spokesman said Tuesday. Bola Tinubu, also head of the West African bloc ECOWAS, weighed in for the first time since the soldiers behind the coup in Niger defied the bloc's Sunday deadline to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum or face the possible use of force. Meanwhile efforts by ECOWAS and the United States to parlay with Niger's new rulers have made no headway ahead of a c...
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Niamey (Niger) (AFP) - The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger's military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc was ignored. Victoria Nuland, a veteran envoy and acting deputy secretary of state, said she met for more than two hours with military chiefs who ousted democratically elected Western ally Mohamed Bazoum on July 26. Nuland's trip, conducted in secrecy until she left, came after the expiration of a deadline set by the ECOWAS regional bloc to reinstate Bazoum by midnight (2300 GMT) on Sunday or risk mil...
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