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French President Emmanuel Macron has said France is soon to withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by its military contingent in the next months, in the wake of the coup in the west African country…
France has maintained some 1,500 troops in Niger since the July coup and had refused an order by the new junta for its ambassador to leave, saying that France did not recognise the coup.
The change comes after Niger's democratically elected president was deposed in a coup. French troops pulled out of neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso in recent years after coups there.
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said France is imminently to withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the next months, in the wake of the coup in the west African country that ousted the pro-Paris president.
France has maintained some 1,500 troops in Niger since the July coup.