US says will complete troop pull-out from Niger early August
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Abidjan: The US troop withdrawal fromNiger, as demanded by the West African country s military regime, will be completed in early August, a US general...
Abidjan: The US troop withdrawal from Niger, as demanded by the West African country's military regime, will be completed in early August, a US general said Wednesday.
"The withdrawal is going well," General Kenneth Ekman, US commander for Africa, told reporters in Abidjan.
"It is ahead of schedule and this is because of the excellent coordination that we have had with our Nigerien military counterparts," said Ekman, who heads up the US Africa Command Africom.
"I expect that we will be complete with the withdrawal by early August, well ahead of the 15 September mutually agreed deadline,"
The United States pulled out of a base in the Niger capital Niamey in early July, but another 200 US soldiers remain at the Agadez drone base in the north of the country.