{"id":49450,"date":"2024-03-17T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49450"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:57:04","slug":"niger-breaks-off-military-cooperation-with-us-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49450","title":{"rendered":"Niger breaks off military cooperation with US: govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Niger&#8217;s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221; its military cooperation agreement with the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the government had decided to &#8220;denounce with immediate effect&#8221; the agreement relating to US military and civilian employees of the US Department of Defense inside Niger.<\/p>\n<p>It was read out Saturday evening on national television.<\/p>\n<p>US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington was aware of the statement, and that it came after &#8220;frank discussions &#8230; about our concerns&#8221; with the junta&#8217;s &#8220;trajectory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller said on X that the US was still in touch with the junta and would provide updates &#8220;as warranted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#8217;s government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221; its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[838],"class_list":["post-49450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-niger-breaks-off-military-cooperation-with-us-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}