🇫🇷❌🇳🇪 — Paris believes that the "Putschists have no authority" to order or demand the departure of the French Ambassador, reports BFMTV

— "France on Friday evening rejected the request for the departure of its ambassador to Niger, considering that "the putschists have no authority" for such a request.

The military regime that took power on July 26 in Niamey had announced earlier that it was giving Sylvain Itté 48 hours to leave Nigerien territory, arguing that he had refused "to respond to the invitation (.. .) for an interview" on Friday. He also highlighted "other actions by the French government contrary to the interests of Niger"."

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🇱🇾❌🇹🇩❗️ — The Libyan National Army (LNA), which rules over Eastern Libya, launched a major military operation near southern border after LNA Forces and Chadian Army clashed on the Libyan-Chadian Border, reports Arab News
— Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army has launched a military operation to secure the southern border, it said on Friday, after fighting near the area resumed between the government of Chad and a rebel group trying to unseat it.

Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby said on Sunday that the army was again fighting the Libya-based Chadian Front for Change and Concord or FACT group, which quit a ceasefire last week amid clashes.

FACT had fought alongside the LNA as one of many mercenary groups involved in Libya’s civil war, researchers on Libya say, but they were on opposing sides during fighting two years ago when Deby’s father was killed.

LNA spokesperson Ahmad Mismari said the operation would involve land and air forces. An LNA media unit distributed photographs of Haftar’s son, Saddam Haftar, overseeing the operation with other LNA officers.

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