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Robert Tait in Washington

US to withdraw from Niger after security pact fails in strategic victory for Russia

A group of Nigerien men with very short hair, wearing powder blue and white linen shirts, hold a brown and white handpainted sign that says
Protesters in Niamey, Niger, on 13 April 2024. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The US will withdraw more than 1,000 military personnel from Niger in a move that will force the Biden administration to rethink its counter-terrorism strategy and amounts to a strategic victory for Russia.

The decision comes a month after the west African country’s ruling military junta revoked a security pact with Washington that had allowed American forces on its soil to help fight jihadist terrorism.

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