Alleged mutiny: Tension in Niger Republic as Presidential Guard seals off State House

There is hostility successful Niger Republic aft information was tightened astir the Presidential Palace successful Niamey pursuing reports of unrest involving elements of the country’s equipped forces.

According to information sources, the Presidential Guard, backed by armoured vehicles, reinforced information astir the Presidency connected the nighttime of July 3 and into July 4 aft what was described arsenic a constricted protestation by unit of an armoured portion of the Niger Armed Forces (FAN).

The sources said immoderate soldiers allegedly refused deployment to frontline positions successful the bluish Tillabéri Region, peculiarly astir Inatès and Chinagodrar, citing inadequate dense instrumentality and insufficient operational resources to tackle worsening information threats.

One information root described the incidental arsenic a “small mutiny,” though the Nigerien authorities person not officially confirmed the claim.

The reported protestation prompted heightened information measures astir the Presidential Palace, with further troops deployed and question temporarily restricted successful the surrounding country arsenic a precaution.

The Tillabéri Region is 1 of Niger’s astir volatile areas, wherever equipped extremist groups, including factions linked to the alleged Islamic State successful the Greater Sahara (ISGS), person carried retired repeated attacks i...