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The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.
The CNSP claimed U.S. forces “did nothing while the terrorists killed people and burned towns,” as junta-installed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine put it. Zeine said Biden administration officials sent to negotiate with his government were arrogant, condescending, and threatening, particularly in their insistence that Niger should scuttle a rumored sale of uranium to Iran.
Biden officials kept talking about a limited “drawdown to a level that Nigeriens can live with,” but that level turned out to be zero.completely from Airbase 101 this month, and on Monday, the Department of Defense and its Nigerien counterpart announced the handover of Airbase 201, the larger of the two American bases.
Pentagon officials have said weapons and other “sensitive equipment” were prioritized for swift removal from the bases. Expensive gear like the massive million-dollar generators provided for Airbase 201 is reportedly being shipped to Europe for the time being. Senior U.S. officials said the Niger junta has promised not to hand any remaining U.S. equipment or structures over to the Russians, who have been moving into the region with a newly-formed “Africa Corps.
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