US Agrees To Withdraw From Niger
The Biden administration has agreed to a request from Niger’s military-led government to withdraw US troops from the West African nation.
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine that the US planned to leave during a meeting on Friday. “We’ve agreed to begin conversations within days about how to develop a [withdrawal] plan,” Campbell said, according to The Washington Post.
“They’ve agreed that we do it in an orderly and responsible way. And we will need to probably dispatch folks to Niamey to sit down and hash it out. And that of course will be a Defense Department project,” Campbell added.
The decision came about one month after Niger’s government ended military cooperation with the US and said the US presence was no longer legally justified.
