The judicial authorities in Niger have licensed civil society to mount protests scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, to demand an end to the presence of foreign military bases in the country.
The French news agency quoted one of the organizers of the demonstrations as saying that his country has been facing bloody terrorist attacks for years.
"On December 2, the Niamey, the capital city of Niger, municipality informed the organizers of the protests of a decree banning demonstrations on December 5 due to the risk of disturbing public order," said Michael Zody, national coordinator of the "Turn the Pages" movement that called for the demonstration.
He added: "We resorted to the urgent matters judge, who issued his ruling on Friday.
Zody indicated that the judge issued an "order to demonstrate" and also "asked the police to supervise our demonstration."
"First, the demonstration is to demand an unconditional end to the presence of all foreign military bases, especially the French ones. It has been here for 8 years and we have not seen a change" in the field of insecurity.
On the eighteenth of last November, the French General Staff announced that the army forces managed to "neutralize" about 20 terrorists in Niger during an air operation.
In a statement reported by France 24 news channel Thursday evening, Colonel Pascal Jani, a spokesman for the French Army, said that the unplanned operation included the use of combat helicopters, Reaper drones, and helicopters, in the fight against a terrorist group in the region. Known as the "three borders" between Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
He pointed out that the airstrike took place 1.5 kilometers from the border with Mali in the territory of Niger or "the usual area of the terrorist organization ISIS in the Sahara."
France began organizing its military deployment in the Sahel region, which included, in particular, leaving the bases located in the far north of Mali and reducing the number of its soldiers in the region.
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