Any attack on French nationals or interests in Niger will provoke a strong immediate reaction from France, the French government said on Sunday, as pro-junta protests took place outside the French embassy in Niamey after last week's MilitaryCoup.
Demonstrators gather in support of the putschist soldiers in Niamey, the capital city of Niger, on July 30 2023.Any attack on French nationals or interests in Niger will provoke a strong immediate reaction from France, the French government said on Sunday, as pro-junta protests took place outside the French embassy in Niamey after last week's military coup.
“The president [Emmanuel Macron] will not tolerate any attack against France and its interests,” Macron's office said in a statement, specifying it would respond to attacks against French diplomats, armed forces or businesses. Macron has spoken with ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and former president of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou in the past few hours, the statement said, adding that both of them condemned the coup and called for calm.
France announced on Saturday it was cutting all development aid to Niger and called for the return of Bazoum. Niger has been a security partner of former colonial power France, and the US, which have used it as a base to fight an Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa's wider Sahel region.
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