The U.S. is making precautionary plans to evacuate two key drone and counter-terror bases in Niger if that becomes necessary under the West African nation’s new ruling junta
if that becomes necessary under the West African nation’s new ruling junta, the Air Force commander for Africa said Friday.
Hecker stressed that there had been no decision from the Biden administration regarding whether the Niger military’s July 26U.S. bases there have been vital counter-terror posts in an unstable region that is seeing an increasing number of coups as well as encroachment by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group. The U.S. presence includes air bases in Niamey, the capital, and in the remote city of Agadez on the southern edge of the Sahara.
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