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| Al Jazeera: France will withdraw troops from Niger on October 9 |
| 2023-10-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] France will begin withdrawing troops from Niger on Monday, October 9. Al Jazeera TV channel reported this, citing its own sources. According to the TV channel, the command of the French Armed Forces has determined the temporary location of units outside Niger. The military contingent will be redeployed to neighboring Chad, where the headquarters of French troops is located in the Sahel. It is noted that representatives of the command of the French Armed Forces agreed with the Niger rebels on the procedure for the withdrawal of a limited contingent. As Regnum reported, on September 24, French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with TF1 and France 2 TV channels, promised that the country's Armed Forces would be withdrawn from Niger by the end of this year. He noted that the operation to withdraw a limited contingent will begin in the coming weeks. |
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