Niger coup: Macron says France to withdraw troops and ambassador
France's president says the ambassador will leave and all military co-operation will end in the coming months.
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France's president says the ambassador will leave and all military co-operation will end in the coming months.
President Emmanuel Macron has said that France would soon withdraw its ambassador from Niger Republic, followed by its military contingent.
The French president said military cooperation with the West African nation would end and France's soldiers stationed there would return home by the end of the year.
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its democratically elected president was deposed in a coup.
French troops and the nation's ambassador will leave Niger after a coup in the coutnry toppled its democratically-elected president.