Niger’s Prime Minister appointed by the military government, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, is in Moscow, the capital of Russia, to talk about making the economic and military relationship between the two countries stronger.
He is with Defence Minister Salihou Mody and Niger’s ministers of petroleum and trade.
Mondafrique, a news website in Paris, said that Mr. Zeine would also travel to Turkey, Iran, and Serbia.
Niger’s National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP) group, facing strict punishments from its neighboring countries in West Africa, wants to make new partnerships, according to Mondafrique.
The CNSP wants to become independent from Western influence. They are starting by cutting off military connections with France.
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