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Niger’s land, air borders reopen with five neighboring countries
Niger’s land and air borders with five neighboring countries have been reopened, nearly a week after they were closed following a coup that overthrew elected President Mohamed Bazoum, one of the putschists announced Tuesday on national television.
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“The land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Chad are reopened” from “today,” he declared, hours after a first French evacuation flight took off and five days before a deadline to restore constitutional order issued by a bloc of West African countries.
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