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.
French President Emmanuel Macron, pictured in July in Paris, says 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 President Emmanuel Macron, pictured in July in Paris, says 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.
France has maintained some 1,500 troops in Niger since the July coup, and had repeatedly refused an order by the new junta for its ambassador to leave, saying that France didn't recognize the coup leaders as legitimate. Tensions between France and Niger, a former French colony, have mounted in recent weeks, and Macron said recently that diplomats were surviving on military rations as they holed up in the embassy.Why have we seen so many recent coups across West and Central Africa?
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