US Military Vacates Last Niger Base as Full Withdrawal Nears

Published on August 5, 2024

U.S. troops vacated and handed over control of their last major outpost in Niger on Aug. 5, in line with the Nigerian government’s request for American soldiers to leave the country. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the handoff of Air Base 201 in Agadez in a joint statement with the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Niger on Aug. 5. The withdrawal from the base occurred a month after U.S. troops handed over control of their other major logistical hub, Air Base 101, in July. Washington’s military withdrawal from Niger, where units had been posted since the 2010s as part of a regional counter-terrorism effort, is now nearly complete....

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