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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Niger

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks in a video, August 21, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 22, 2023, 12:21 pm
Wagner chief says group making Africa ‘freer,’ in rare appearance since mutiny
Yevgeny Prigozhin hints he is on continent in recent video, as tensions brew in Niger over military coup that Wagner-linked group describes as fight against ‘colonizers’
By AFP
Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane (center), spokesperson for the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), announces on TV that soldiers have overthrown the government of Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum, on July 26, 2023. (ORTN - Télé Sahel/AFP)
July 27, 2023, 9:53 am
Mutinous soldiers claim to overthrow Niger’s president in military coup
Military officer leading effort cites poor governance as reason for takeover; international community condemns act, while president’s office vows loyal forces will retaliate
By Agencies
On February 23, 2021 Niger's newly elected president Mohamed Bazoum gestures at his party headquarter after the announcement of his election in Niamey. Niger's constitutional court on March 21, 2021, confirmed Mohamed Bazoum as the country's new president with more than 55 percent of the votes cast in last month's run-off. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
March 23, 2021, 9:16 am
137 killed in Niger’s deadliest suspected jihadist massacre
Attack brings the number of fatalities in the Mali-Niger border region to 236 in just over a week
By AFP
A map of Africa shown to US-Jewish leaders by PM Netanyahu at a conference in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019 (TOI staff)
February 20, 2019, 12:50 am
Map shown by PM shows Israel having ‘potential’ relations with Mali, Niger
Presented in meeting with US-Jewish leaders, Netanyahu’s graphic also indicates Jerusalem has ties with Somalia and Djibouti; it doesn’t
By Raphael Ahren
Departure hall of Terminal 2 at Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 10, 2016. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons/Trinidade)
February 19, 2019, 3:34 pm
Niger man deported by Israel stranded in Ethiopia airport for months
Eissa Muhamad has been living in the departures lounge in Addis Ababa since November, after his home country twice refused to repatriate him
By Tamar Pileggi
US President Donald Trump waits for a meeting with the UN Secretary General in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
October 23, 2017, 5:25 pm
Trump defends call to fallen soldier’s widow
US president tweets that he had ‘respectful conversation’ with La David Johnson’s widow and that he remembered his name ‘without hesitation!’
By AP and ToI Staff
In this Tuesday, October 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger, upon his body's arrival in Miami. (WPLG via AP)
October 18, 2017, 10:27 pm
Family of slain sergeant says Trump showed ‘disrespect’
US president didn’t even remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s name in call to widow, said her husband ‘knew what he signed up for’
By Jonathan Lemire and Calvin Woodward
This November 18, 2015, photo shows House Education and the Workforce Committee member Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Democrat of Florida, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
October 18, 2017, 6:16 pm
US lawmaker: Trump told soldier’s widow he ‘knew what he signed up for’
US president denies account after Florida representative says she heard conversation with wife of serviceman killed in Niger
By AP
A picture taken on October 23, 2015 in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, shows people standing in a mosque following a suicide bombing. (AFP/STRINGER)
October 24, 2015, 12:25 am
Mosque blasts kill 55 in Nigeria
Bombings come as extremist Islamist group Boko Haram briefly seizes a town in neighboring Cameroon
By AFP
Smoke billows in a street as people demonstrate against French weekly Charlie Hebdo's publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad near the grand mosque in Niamey, Niger on January 17, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Boureima Hama)
January 17, 2015, 7:33 pm
Churches torched in Niger anti-Charlie Hebdo protests
Rioters in West African country burn French-linked institutions; Europe on edge from recent attacks
By AFP
More than three years after he was captured by al Qaeda militants in Mali, Serge Lazarevic, the last French hostage in Africa, has been released. Photo credit: Youtube screenshot)
December 9, 2014, 4:12 pm
Hollande: Last French hostage held abroad is freed
French president says Serge Lazarevic, who had been kidnapped by al-Qaeda in 2011, is in ‘relatively good health’
By AFP
Al-Saadi Gaddafi, in uniform, and his brother Hannibal Gaddafi, right, watch a military exercise in an undated photo released in 2011. (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)
March 7, 2014, 6:32 am
Gaddafi son al-Saadi extradited to Libya
Playboy son of deposed dictator deported from refuge in Niger to face charges for abuses during father’s reign
By AP
March 6, 2014, 9:20 am
Gaddafi’s son extradited to Libya
Al-Saadi had fled in 2011 when his father’s regime was crumbling and been under house arrest since
By AP
This image taken from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar. (photo credit: AP/SITE Intel Group)
May 29, 2013, 2:02 am
Letter offers rare glimpse into al-Qaeda’s inner workings
Disciplinary missive to terror mastermind Moktar Belmoktar, behind major north African attacks, provides window into messy split with highly structured group
By Rukmini Callimachi
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign as he attends the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 6 (Photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
April 16, 2013, 5:01 pm
Ahmadinejad visits uranium-rich Niger
Selling mineral to Iran would be illegal, says West African nation’s foreign minister
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