Burkina approves law for sending troops to post-coup Niger

Burkina Faso‘s transitional legislature on Tuesday approved a law authorising the dispatch of troops to neighbouring Niger, which faces threatened military intervention to restore civilian rule following a coup. Under the new law, Burkina can send a military contingent to Niger for a three-month renewable period. It provides a legal framework for the deployment, whose […]

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