Over 350 Indians are awaiting evacuation from Niger, the West African country which witnessed a military coup last month.
Shabeer, a native of Malappuram who has been working in the export sector of the country for the past two years, told The Hindu over phone from Niamey, the country’s capital, that almost all the foreigners, except Indians and a few Turkish people, had already been evacuated.
On Sunday, life appeared somewhat normal on the streets, though an eerie silence had settled over the streets that otherwise hummed with traffic and sirens, he said, adding that the entire region might witness a civil war anytime soon or an invasion by Western powers or forces led by Russia.
