The military leadership of Niger Republic has described the recent remark of French President Emmanuel Macron on the ongoing political crisis in the West African Country as a statement intended to create an inter-ethnic conflict. SaharaReporters had reported that Macron boasted that French military operations in the Sahel region ensured the survival of the African countries, adding that “there would probably no longer be a Mali…Burkina Faso, and I’m not sure there would still be Niger.”