Algeria: We do not support military intervention in Niger

We do not support military intervention in Niger. Algeria has strongly opposed the plan to enter the military in Niger, with the aim of ending the military coup at the end of last month, which removed President Mohamed Bazoum from power. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has told the Ennahar TV channel that military intervention in Niger could fuel the fire of war in the entire Sahel region in Africa, stressing that Algiers will never use force against its neighbors. The Algerian President's statement was made after the military leaders of the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) agreed to a plan to intervene militarily in Niger when the time they gave to the soldiers who made the coup ends.

At the same time, the French government has rejected calls to withdraw its troops from Niger insisting that it supports the pressure of West African countries to restore the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to power. Concern has spread in Niger; The ECOWAS term ends today, Sunday. This is despite thousands of Nigeriens recently protesting in the capital Niamey, demanding the immediate expulsion of American and French troops from the country. Gérard Araud, the former ambassador of France in the United States, the United Nations and in the illegal regime of Israel, has said that the military coup in Niger is the result of the people being tired of the intervention of France and their rejection of the presence of the European state in the country.