Niger Protests News Today

An MEA advisory on Friday asked all Indians living in Niger to depart from that country as soon as possible and also urged those planning to travel to travel to the African country to reconsider their plans.

“We are closely monitoring developments there. We are in touch with our embassy there,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in his weekly media briefing.

On country's 63rd anniversary of independence from France, rally participants carried placards with slogans such as ‘Down with France,’ chanted slogans against foreign troops in Niger

On Thursday, several hundred people gathered in the capital, Niamey, and chanted support for the Russian private military group Wagner while waving Russian flags.