In the General Staff of France, they do not plan to evacuate the French troops located in Niger.
This is reported by the French media with reference to the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of France.
“The evacuation operation that began on August 1 so far concerns only civilians: citizens of France and the European Union. There are fifty French military people at Niamey Airport, who help these people with landing. These citizens should get to their own strokes,” the source said.
France has already sent three aircraft to the NIAMI for the export of evacuated. The first of them has already flown out of Niger.
In the nicher there are about 1.5 thousand French troops.