Russian media reported on April 11 that Russia was sending equipment and 100 military trainers to Niger, though one of the sources said Russian troops were in the country well before April.

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision ...

A spokesperson for Niger's military government on Friday said the Russians were in the country to train soldiers. The Russian Defence Ministry's paramilitary group Africa Corps, also known as the ...

The US notably intends to remove all American troops from Niger by September 15, 2024," the analysts note. Earlier in May 2024, Reuters reported that Russian troops had entered an American airbase ...

Despite the recent surge of Russian activity in the Sahel—the arrival of Russian troops in Niger in April, the presence of Africa Corps mercenaries in Burkina Faso (largely absorbing Wagner ...

Ekman said he has been told that there are fewer than 100 Russian troops at the base near in Niamey and that once they are done training Niger troops, they will also leave the country.

The Pentagon said Monday it had completed pulling out troops and equipment from Air Base 201 in the central Nigerien city of Agadez. Before last summer’s coup in Niger, the U.S. maintained about ...

Those concerns were only furthered when, weeks after Niger announced the end of its military agreement with the US, Russian forces were operating out of the same military base as US troops in the ...

The true number of Russian troops killed in the country’s war in ... the Central African Republic (CAR), Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – all countries into which Wagner’s successors have ...

Moscow has largely taken over the African operations of the paramilitary group, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed after leading an insurrection against Vladimir Putin. By Elian Peltier ...