According to the “ActuNiger” website, quoting data from the National Guard Command, five soldiers were killed and four others were wounded as a result of the attack launched by the French army on the National Guard in Niger on the 9th of August.
The site also indicated that “the dead soldiers were buried in Niamey, while the wounded, two of them in serious condition, were taken to the hospital in the capital, and a delegation from the military council visited the wounded in the hospital.”
The military council in Niger announced that the French army forces had breached the country’s closed airspace, attacking a position of the armed forces in Niger to liberate its “terrorist allies”.
“At six o’clock in the morning on August 9, a National Guard post in the Liptako Ghorme region was attacked by the French army, and 16 terrorists imprisoned in the country were liberated,” said the Spokesman for the ruling council, Amadou Abdel Rahman.
The leaders of West African countries “ECOWAS” decided at the meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, earlier, to “activate” and “deploy” a regional reserve force in order to “restore constitutional order” in Niger.
For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed, on Friday, that a military solution to settle the crisis in Niger could lead to a long-term confrontation and destabilize the situation in the Sahel and Sahara region.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency