More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger to combat the growing threat from various groups of Islamic extremists.
The United States in early 2021 said it had provided Niger with more than $500 million in military assistance and training programs since 2012, one of the largest such support programs in sub-Saharan Africa. The European Union earlier this year launched a 27 million-euro military training mission in Niger.out of a base it constructed in the country’s remote north as part of counterterrorism efforts in the vast Sahel. The fate of that base and other U.S.
“It is too soon to speculate on any potential future actions or activities,” a spokesman with the U.S. Africa Command, John Manley, said in an email. He said there are approximately 1,100 U.S. personnel in Niger.in Africa in recent years, an ambush by extremists in 2017 that left four soldiers dead. The attack again raised questions by some critics in Washington about why the U.S. would be involved on the continent.
Of those deaths, most occurred in Burkina Faso and Mali and just 77 occurred in Niger, said the official, Omar Touray, the president of the ECOWAS Commission. Observers have warned that the extremist threat is also expanding south toward states like Ghana and Ivory Coast. The coup attempt in Niger brings yet more insecurity to the region at large. It also brings new challenges to one of the world’s poorest countries that also struggles with climate change along with migrants from across West Africa trying to make their way across the Sahara and into northern Africa en route toward Europe.
Niger is one of the countries that has seen millions of euros of investment from the EU in its efforts to curb migration via smugglers.The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day.
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