US to withdraw military personnel from Niger - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business,

There were a little over 1000 US troops in Niger as of last year, where the U.S. military operated.

late on Friday, adding an agreement was reached between US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger’s leadership.

Since 2018, the base has been used to target Islamic State militants and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, an al Qaeda affiliate, in the Sahel region.Until the coup, Niger had remained a key security partner of the United States and France. In the coming days, there will be conversations about how that drawdown of troops will look, the source told Reuters, asking not to be identified.

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