2023-08-05 23:30:00
The military intervention in Niger “is a direct threat to Algeria. We categorically refuse any military intervention,” Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in a television interview with the Algerian press broadcast on Saturday evening.
He hammered that “there will be no solution without us (Algeria). We are the first concerned. “Algeria shares nearly a thousand kilometers” of border with Niger, he said. He underlines.
“In what situations are the countries that have experienced military intervention today?” asked the Algerian head of state, specifying “look at where Libya and Syria are”.
On July 30, four days after the coup that overthrew elected President Mohamed Bazoum, ECOWAS gave the putschists seven days, i.e. until Sunday evening, to restore him to office, under penalty of using ” strength”.
Several West African armies such as Senegal have said they are ready to send soldiers, as has Côte d’Ivoire, according to a source close to the Ivorian delegation in Abuja who did not specify the possible number of men mobilized.
“Two countries (Mali and Burkina Faso) are ready to enter the battle (next to Niger)”, recalled the Algerian president, warning that in the event of a military intervention “the whole Sahel will be set ablaze”.
In Mali and Burkina Faso, faced with jihadist violence like Niger, the putschist soldiers warned that they would stand in solidarity with their neighbor and that any military intervention would be considered as “a declaration of war” against them.
Mr. Tebboune underlined that Algeria is for “institutional legitimacy. They must return to this legitimacy. We are ready to help them to unite”
“Algeria will not use force with its neighbours,” he added.
“Nigerians respect Algeria and will not approach Algerian borders”.
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