US Troops Pull Out of Niger's Air Base 101 More NIAMEY (Reuters) - The U.S. military withdrew its personnel from Niger's Air Base 101 near the airport in the capital Niamey on Sunday, ahead of its exit from a major drone base near the desert city of Agadez in the coming weeks. Ni...
Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel US forces from the country. The military officers ruling the West African nation have told the US to...
New: The U.S. military withdrew troops from a key base in Niger,Air Base 101 beside the Diori Hamani International Airport in the capital city of Niamey, officials at Africa Command said Monday. For several years, the U.S. kept a contingent of about 1,000 troops in the ...
Russian military personnel have entered an airbase in Niger where some U.S. troops are located, two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. Russians have been in Niger for several weeks as the U.S.negotiates the withdrawalof its troops from two airbases in the country, one of...
All of the remaining U.S. troops based in Niger will leave the country no later than mid-September, according to U.S. officials and a joint statement from the countries.
troops in Niger as of last year, where the U.S. military operates out of two bases, including a drone base known as Air Base 201, built near Agadez in central Niger at a cost of more than $100 million. Since 2018 the base has been used to target Islamic State militants and Jama’...
as well as U.S. Air Force Africa headquarters at Ramstein Air Base.During the officers’ visit, General Ward gave an unprecedentedinterview toAl-Musallh, the official journal of the Libyan armed forces, in which he described his discussions of African security matters with Qadhafi and“we look...
Townsend said that AFRICOM has adequate resources to conduct its mission with one exception: intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. In November,AFRICOM announcedthat Nigerien Air Base 201 in Niger was operational and that ISR operations were being conducted out of the base....
Lastyear,the US military started moving its drone operationfrom Niger’s capital, Niamey, to Agadez. This year, the US Africa Command will launch its MQ-9 Reapers –“hunter/killer” drones with advanced intelligence gathering capabilities – from an air base just outside the city. ...
And while the instability around Niger will be the focus of operations, it will be the security situation in Agadez that ultimately determines the success of Air Base 201. “The stability is absolutely fragile,” explains Col. Mark Cheadle of AFRICOM. “With the youth bulge that we have here...