French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country as a result of the coup that removed the ...

France's ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itté and ... The US considers its military presence in Niger crucial to countering the growing influence of Russia's Wagner mercenary group in West Africa's ...

In Monday's speech, Mr Macron defended France's military presence in Niger, stating that without intervention from Paris, the country would "no longer exist" with its "existing borders".

The United States is winding down its military operations in Niger ahead of a mid-September deadline agreed with the ...

The French military presence in Niger is "just as symbolic as it is practical - it is a reminder that France has insidiously retained a quasi-empire in Africa." According to the expert ...

Considered by many to be the last island of stability in the Sahel region, Chad is in a strong position to negotiate its ...

Niger's ruling military asked former colonial power France to remove troops who were there to fight jihadists at the end of 2023. The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of ...

At the end of May, Germany and Niger reached an interim agreement allowing the German military to continue operating ... on other Western allies such as France and the United States to turn ...

Niger's democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown last year by the junta, which has since cut military and diplomatic ties with France - the former colonial power - and ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to press ahead with his plan to station soldiers in Chad. Orbán spoke of the plan ...

In a late-night news conference, a spokesman for Niger’s government — the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland — declared the American military presence “illegal.” Nigerien ...