The Transition government of Niger has expelled more than 100,000 troops of its former colonial master France with the last batch of 159 soldiers set to exit the country this Saturday. This came after the country's president and military junta leader Abdourahamane Tchiani cut off total relations with Macron's France and this saw the French ambassador exit the country in September earlier this year.
On the contrary the country has kept close relations with the United States,maintaining more than 600,000 troops at the country's northern border inorder to fight the lslamic jihadists and as well train the country's armed force. The two countries have continued to foster relations with U.S Secretary of state Antony Blinken sending a pack of diplomats to the Niamey capital to reinstate cooperation between the countries that had been sabotaged by the United States support towards France following Bazoum's ousting.
France continues to face resentment from it's former colonial empire with subsequent coups against the former civilian French backed governments that have seen atleast six military coups in the Tropical Sahel region since 2021 with the latest being the overthrow of Omar Bongo's son Ali Bongo who had steered the nation for the last 14 years by another military junta under General Brice Nguema Oguili.
The different military junta governments continue to strengthen ties amongest themselves with close cooperation especially in security and trade by Col. Assimi Goita of Mali, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani of Niger and Capt. Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso inorder to overcome the pro western and ECOWAS backed sanctions which are threatening livelihoods in Africa's most underdeveloped region.
