[HIGHLIGHTS] Niger: what follow-up after the denunciation of the military agreement between Niamey and Washington?

Niamey denounced, on Saturday March 16, the military cooperation agreement with Washington, which has around a thousand soldiers in the country. The Patriotic Front for Sovereignty (FPS), a coalition supporting the military, welcomed “  a courageous decision” Niger becomes “a theater of confrontations between rival powers”, says historian Arthur Banga.

“We must expect the situation to get tougher, which Washington must expect,” says Banga, who says the junta is not ready to leave the emergency regime.