Niger : Retrait des militaires français du Niger

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Les derniers des 1 500 soldats et aviateurs français qui étaient stationnés au Niger ont quitté le pays vendredi matin, après une longue confrontation entre Paris et les autorités militaires de Niamey. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 The last of the 1,500 French soldiers and aviators stationed in Niger left the country

00:04 on Friday morning, after a long confrontation between Paris and the military authorities

00:08 of Niamé.

00:09 France has been present in the region since 2013 and had deployed up to 5,500 men as

00:15 part of Operation Barkhane, which aims to fight jihadism, in collaboration with the

00:19 armies of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.

00:22 The last French soldiers deployed in Niger left the country on Friday, December 22 in

00:27 the morning, announced the Nigerian army during a ceremony in Niamé marking the end of their

00:32 presence, after 10 years of anti-jihadist fighting French in the Sahel.

00:36 Today's date marks the end of the process of disengagement of the French forces in

00:40 the Sahel, said a lieutenant of the Nigerian army, Salim Ibrahim.

00:45 The ceremony took place in the airbase of Niamé, housing a BAP-projected airbase,

00:51 where part of the 1,500 soldiers and aviators French present in Niger.

00:55 The last French soldiers took off on board two planes, a journalist from AFP noted.

01:01 Their destination has not been informed.

01:03 The ceremony was concluded by the signing of a document signed by the Chief of Staff

01:09 of the Nigerian Army, Colonel Maman Sanikyaou and the Commander of the French Forces in

01:14 the Sahel, General Eric Ozan, said Lieutenant Salim Ibrahim.

01:18 The BAP was retreated to Niger.

01:21 The signature of the text was made in the presence of Togo and the United States, respectively

01:26 represented by the Chief of Staff General of the Armies and the military attaché of

01:30 Defense, he added.

01:31 10 years of anti-jihadist fighting French in the Sahel.

01:35 Lieutenant Ibrahim specified that during the process of disengagement of the French military,

01:40 145 flights were made, 15 land convoys took place and about 1,500 soldiers were disengaged.

01:46 "We congratulate ourselves on the good progress and disengagement, because no major incident

01:51 has been recorded," he said.

01:53 The withdrawal of troops began early October, but ended with 10 years of anti-jihadist fighting

01:59 French in the Sahel, where Niger was one of the last allies of Paris before the coup

02:02 of July.

02:03 After a two-month arms race with the new authorities in Niamey who had denounced

02:08 several military agreements with Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced

02:12 on September 24 that the French troops would leave Niger by the end of the year.

02:17 In Niger, most of the French troops were deployed in Niamey and the rest on two

02:22 advanced posts in the so-called three borders between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, considered

02:27 as a group of Al-Qaeda-related groups and the Islamic State, and there.

02:31 With AFP.

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