The soldiers who took power in Niger almost a month ago announced on thursday that they Would authorize the armed forces of their neighbors in Burkina Faso and Mali to intervene on their soil<in the event of agression>.
The Foreign Affairs soldiers of Burkina Faso and Mali, Olivier Rouamba and Abdoulaye Diop, were visiting Niger's New strongman, General Abdourahamane Tiani.
They welcome them signing of an ordinance authorizing the defense and security forces of Burkina Faso and Mali to intervene on Nigerien territory in the event of agression> according to a press release read by oumarou Ibrahim sidi, Deputy secretary General from the Nigerien ministry of Foreign Affairs,at the end of the visite.
Burkina and Mali, faced like Niger with recurrent jihdist violence, are also led by soldiers who took power by force betwen 2020 and 2022.
Very soon after the july 26 coup d'etat in Niamey, they showed their solidarity with the New nigerienne authorities, in particlar in the face of the threat brandished by the economic communuty of west African states (ECOWAS) to intervene. Militarily to restore constitutional order.
The two countries had thus warned ECOWAS against any intervention in Niger, which would be assimilated to a< declaration of War>which they repeated on thursday.
General Tiani, for his part, assured on saturday that such an armed operation would not be walk in the park that some believe.
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