The U.S. military is moving ahead with plans to pull troops out of the African countries of Chad and Niger, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder announced on Thursday. Chad and Niger have partnered with U.S. forces in the past to combat terrorism and insurgencies in the Sahel, a transitionary region between the Sahara […]
The United States is set to withdraw its forces from Niger, an African country in the Sahel where about 1,000 American troops are currently stationed. Kervin Aucoin, a former lead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance coordinator for the U.S. Army and the host of the “This Week Explained” podcast, says this will create a security vacuum […]
PARIS—France will pull its soldiers out of Niger following a July coup in the West African country, President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday, dealing a huge blow to French influence and counter-insurgency operations in the Sahel region. Mr. Macron said 1,500 troops would withdraw by the end of the year and that France, the former […]
Following last month’s coup in Niger, U.S. officials recently warned that Russia’s Wagner group might take advantage of the instability in West Africa. To delve deeper into this issue, NTD spoke with a State Department and White House reporter to learn more.
The head of UK Scouts criticises this year’s World Scout Jamboree in South Korea, as all British attendees are evacuated from the campsite. The first asylum seekers have arrived on the controversial accommodation barge moored in Dorset. Fears of military escalation rise, as the ruling junta in Niger closes its airspace. We hear from a […]
Former President Donald Trump on Aug. 4 pleaded not guilty to three new felony charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith in a superseding indictment in a case that accuses the former president of mishandling classified documents. Mr. Trump took to Truth Social to call on the Supreme Court to step in. The House Committee […]
The United States has ordered the evacuation of some staff and families from its embassy in Niger’s capital, Niamey, amid a military coup that has ousted the West African country’s democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. “Today, we ordered the temporary departure of non-emergency personnel and eligible family members from Niger,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in […]
The prime minister announces plans for hundreds of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, but meets criticism from climate campaigners. A British pensioner has been released from prison in Cyprus immediately after he was sentenced to two years for killing his wife in an assisted suicide. A powerful group of West African […]
The U.S. Department of Justice on July 27 issued an updated indictment, adding new charges and a third defendant to the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Earlier in the day, attorneys representing Trump met with DOJ prosecutors in Washington. They pleaded his case that he committed no wrongdoing in connection with the […]
A Biden administration official announced that Jeff Woodke, an American aid worker kidnapped in a West African country in 2016, has been freed after more than six years in captivity. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed the release in a statement on Twitter, saying he’s “gratified and relieved” to announce that Woodke has been freed. […]
PARIS—The French army said on Thursday that forces from its Operation Barkhane in West Africa had killed close to 40 militants in a strike near the border of Niger with Burkina Faso on June 14. Following an attack against Niger gendarmes and acting at the request of authorities in Niger, Barkhane forces used air surveillance […]
NIAMEY—Unidentified armed men killed seven border police and four National Guard members in separate attacks in different parts of Niger, the government said on Wednesday. Both of the attacks were on Tuesday—one on a police post in Petelkole, on the western border with Burkina Faso, and one on a National Guard position in Djado, in […]
NIAMEY, Niger—Extremist gunmen attacked a military camp in Niger near its southeastern border with Burkina Faso, killing at least 12 soldiers, the West Africa country’s interior ministry said. Extremist rebels riding 100 motorcycles attacked the military camp of Fonion, in the Gorouel area, the ministry said in a statement late Sunday. Soldiers fought back and […]
NIAMEY, Niger—More than 20 children were killed and dozens more injured when a fire swept through a school in Niger’s second-largest city, Maradi. Three classrooms made of straw were consumed by the fire at the pre-school and primary school called ‘AFN’, taking the lives of the children aged between 3 and 8, the government said […]
NIAMEY—At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a village in southwestern Niger where Islamist terrorists have repeatedly massacred civilians this year, a local official and a security source said on Saturday. The unidentified gunmen opened fire during Friday prayers in the village of Theim in the Tillabery region and killed 16 […]
The government of Niger declared three days of mourning after 89 soldiers were killed in an attack by suspected terrorists on a base located in the country’s west, a spokesman said. Nigerian President Mahamadou Issoufou also announced he has replaced the head of the country’s army, Ahmed Mohamed, who led the military for two years, […]
NIAMEY—Suspected radical Islamic terrorists killed 25 soldiers and wounded six others in an attack on an army post in west Niger near its border with Mali on Thursday, the government said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack on the post at Chinagodrar, about 130 miles (209 km) north of the […]
NOUAKCHOTT–The leader of ISIS’s affiliate in West Africa has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four U.S. special forces and four soldiers from Niger in October, Mauritania’s independent Nouakchott News Agency (ANI) reported on Saturday. The troops were killed when their joint patrol was attacked near the village of Tongo Tongo, on the Mali-Niger […]
The Department of Defense is investigating why the body of a fourth Special Forces soldier killed in an ambush in Niger on Oct. 4 ended up a mile from the site of the attack. “The loss of our troops is under investigation,” said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. “We investigate anytime we have our troops killed, […]
