Saturday's announcement came in the week that a delegation from Washington had been in Niamey for talks with the country's military leadership. The US used its base in Niger to monitor regional jihadist activity.
“The US presence on the territory of the Republic of Niger is illegal and violates all the constitutional and democratic rules which would require the sovereign people... to be consulted on the installation of a foreign army on its territory,” Niger's military spokesperson Col Amadou Abdramane said in a damning statement on national television.
He also alleged that the US delegation had accused Niger of making a secret deal to supply uranium to Iran. Col Abdramane described the accusation as “cynical” and “reminiscent of the second Iraq war”.
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Niger and surrounding countries will change their decisions after Russia loses the war in Ukraine.