The representative of the Nigerian embassy in Niamey was summoned on Wednesday December 18, 2024 by the Nigerien Minister of Foreign Affairs. The information was given Thursday evening by Nigerien national television. Relations between the two neighbors, tense after the coup d’état of July 2023, nevertheless warmed up last August. Nigeria, which is one of Niger’s main trading partners, did not react.
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“ THE Nigeria has not given up serving as a rear base for the destabilization of the Niger », Says Nigerien national television. In complicity with certain foreign powers and the dignitaries of the old regime to whom he offers refuge, says Télé Sahel.
The summoning of the charge d’affaires of the Nigerian embassy by the Nigerien Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yaou Sangaré Bakary, comes as the pipeline, which transports Nigerien oil to Benin along the Nigerian border, was sabotaged three times in less than two weeks by armed men whom Niamey accuses of coming from Nigeria.
Relations between the two countries were strained following the coup that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum a year and a half ago. ECOWAS, headed by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, then raised the possibility of armed intervention to restore constitutional order in Niamey.
They are finally warmed up at the end of August. The chiefs of staff of the two armies then noted the resumption of military cooperation, particularly within the framework of the mixed multinational force which fights against terrorists in the Lake Chad basin.
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