2023-08-04 13:42:15
Emmanuel Macron, the French Head of State
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Through a statement read on television on Thursday August 3, 2023, Niger suspended the media France 24 and RFI. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed this. This decision by the new Nigerien authorities is accompanied by the denunciation of the military agreements between the two countries.
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Diplomatic relations between France and Niger have been a little more tense in recent hours. General Abdourahamane Tiani continues to raise his voice against “French interference” in Niger. Indeed, on Thursday, August 3, the boss of the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Fatherland (CNSP), after Burkina Faso and Mali, also ordered the signals of Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24 to be cut off.
The signals of both stations were cut off “on instructions from the new military authorities”, noted AFP on Thursday, August 3, 2023. A suspension in Niger which seems to disturb the sleep of officials in Paris who have also lined up releases of convictions. In this lot, the France Médias Monde group denounced in a press release the interruption of RFI and France 24, indicating that it is ” a decision taken outside of any conventional and illegal framework”.
This decision comes a week after the coup. To this decision is also added the rupture of the military agreements with France and the dismissal of the Nigerien ambassador in Paris. According to Paris, “only the legitimate Nigerien authorities can denounce the military agreements with France”, published AFP on August 4, 2023.
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