A report published by the American newspaper “The Hill” described the “expulsion from Niger as a major setback for the US military” in the African Sahel region.

According to the newspaper, this “will jeopardize US counterterrorism operations, increase Russian influence in Africa and fragment Western relations on the continent.”

The newspaper claimed that the withdrawal of US troops “jeopardizes the containment of the United States ISIS, Boko Haram and other insurgents.”

“Western powers such as the United States and the European Union seem to be losing the battle for the Sahel.”

She also noted that in addition to Niger, Russia has “close security relations and agreements with Mali and Burkina Faso,” as well as Libya and the Central African Republic.

In March, Niger terminated a military agreement with the United States, under which a U.S. drone base was established in the north of the African country.

Niger’s military authorities said the deal was imposed on the country and did not meet the interests of the people.

On April 22, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder confirmed that the United States had begun consultations with Niger on withdrawing its troops.
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🗯 News of preparations for a mini-security summit in France to form joint military units in Libya under US-British supervision has raised a number of indications about Washington’s handling of the Libyan file.

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The Algerian Ministry of Defense announced the arrest of five individuals suspected of belonging to terrorist groups active in the Sahel region of Africa.

The arrests were the result of two separate security operations carried out between the twentieth and twenty-third of this June, in the operational sector of Bordj Badji Mokhtar and the military sector of Tamanrasset, within the sixth military region in the far south of the country.

The first operation resulted in the arrest of four people in the Tamanrasset region, where machine guns, pistols, and quantities of ammunition were seized, while the second operation, which was carried out in Bordj Badji Mokhtar, led to the arrest of the fifth suspect.
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Niger is making great strides on the path to liberation from American and European colonialism, in cooperation with Russia, which has extended the African country a helping hand in rising again and rebuilding the state’s capabilities.

The US Army withdrew its personnel from the 101st Air Base in Niger near the airport in the capital, Niamey, before withdrawing from a major drone base near the desert city of Agadez in the coming weeks.

In April, Niger’s ruling military junta ordered the United States to withdraw nearly a thousand military personnel from the country.

The ruling military junta in Niger has given the United States until September 15 to withdraw its forces from its territory.
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Russian activity in Africa is witnessing an increasing increase in light of the close relations between Moscow and the capitals of the African continent, after the clear rise of national liberation movements, and the successive elimination of European colonialism and its destructive effects, with Russian assistance.

On July 15, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who is in Addis Ababa on a business trip, met with the Chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat.
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