European countries continue to evacuate their people Some European countries continue to evacuate their people in Niger, after the countrie...
European countries continue to evacuate their people
Some European countries continue to evacuate their people in Niger, after the countries of Mali and Burkina Faso, which are also under military rule, threatened to enter Niger into war, as long as Ecowas took military action against the country.
Already the first traces of French and Italian military planes carrying civilians, most of them French, landed in Paris and Rome on Wednesday.
A Frenchman who was among the evacuated people told the Reuters news agency that "we have entered into a difficult situation in Niger, but we are happy since we came out of the country, we are back home".
"We hope things will settle down in the next few days or weeks," he said.
Major Western countries such as France, the United States, Germany and Italy have many soldiers in Niger who are fighting against the rebels or training the country's forces, and helping the Niger army to fight jihadists such as Al Qaeda and ISIS.
So far there has been no announcement from these countries about the withdrawal of their forces.
The German Defense Minister said there is no concern about the security of the German troops in Niger.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Antonio Tajani, said that Western countries will not take military action to force Niger's army to return power to civilians, because according to him, doing so is "like a new colonialism".
Niger is the seventh country with the richest uranium deposits in the world, the energy used to produce nuclear energy and is used in
as a substance to treat cancer.
At the beginning of this week, the European Commission said that it has sufficient uranium energy, to avoid the fear of a decrease in the amount of energy that can be obtained as a result of the crisis of the coup in Niger.