NIGER COUP: JUBILATION IN NIGER AS 400 FRENCH SOLDIERS LEFT NIGER IN PEACE THIS WEEK. NOT BY WAR.

Niger Junta: French Withdrawal to Begin With 400 Soldiers in Southwest. Niger’s military junta said late Thursday that 400 French soldiers based in the southwestern town of Ouallam will be the first to leave the country following France’s announcement that it would begin withdrawing its troops this week. An air base in the capital Niamey, where most French soldiers are stationed, will be dismantled by the end of the year, it said in a statement on national radio. France said it would begin withdrawing its troops from coup-hit Niger this week after President Emmanuel Macron said last month he refused to be “held hostage“ by the leaders of the July 26 takeover and was ending military cooperation with the West African country. 2. “The West’s domination… is coming to an end” says leader of Niger’s Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy Peoples Dispatch spoke with Sani Adamou to discuss the recent coups which he claims are expressions of widespread discontent 3. Nigeria welcomes Algerian mediation in coup-hit Niger. Nigeria’s foreign minister on Thursday welcomed an Algerian offer to mediate talks with the military regime in Niger, which came to power in a coup in July.