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The ruling military junta of Niger Republic has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, to immediately leave the country.
The West African country, which recently withdrew from ECOWAS, has also terminated its agreements with the ICRC.

It was gathered that and some foreign staff have started leaving the country after the organisation closed its office in the capital, Niamey, on Tuesday.

According to Nigerien media, the government had ordered the closure of the humanitarian group’s offices and the immediate departure of foreign staff.

No reason was given for the decision.

DAILY POST reports that the Red Cross had been working in Niger since 1990, recently focusing on aid for victims of years of violence by jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

The Sahel nation’s military ruler, since taking power in a coup in July 2023, has made national sovereignty a rallying cry.

The junta has chilly relations with former colonial ruler France, instead forging ties with fellow juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali as well as with Russia.

In January, interior minister, General Mohamed Toumba, said the government was taking important measures to ensure the monitoring and supervision of NGOs and development organisations.

“Our investigations have indicated there are many NGOs that are in close association with certain partners that are bringing us war… through their support to the terrorists,” he said.

Niger previously banned French humanitarian NGO Acted and local non-profit APBE in November, withdrawing their licenses.

The French NGO had been working in the impoverished country since 2009, notably tending to people displaced by jihadist violence.

Since the coup, Niger’s authorities have expelled both the French and US soldiers fighting against the region’s jihadist threat, as well as the French ambassador.

SalamRushdie:
Red cross is another USAID

EmperorCaesar:


Self-destruct like an aged body cell


Useless decision made in a useless country

zero8zero:
UNRWA has been accused of funding Hamas, ICRC has been accused of funding terrorists. The Chief of Defense has also alleged some NGOs as financiers of terrorism, Nigeria should look inwards too and boot out any foreign NGOs complicit.

chatinent:
Humanitarian agency in the day. Terrorist funders in the night.

EmperorCaesar:


Self-destruct like an aged body cell


Useless decision made in a useless country

Golan007:
You just like writing rubbish.

donmixc:
just like we will order that drug lord out of arewa land 2027

helinues will cry