A | COTONOU, Benin -- French troops have started leaving Niger more than two months after mutinous soldiers toppled the African country’s democratically elected president, the military said Wednesday. More than 100 troops left in two flights from the capital Niamey on Tuesday in the first of what will be several rounds of departures between now and the end of the year, said French military spokesman, Col. Pierre Gaudilliere. All are returning to France, he said. Niger’s state television broadcast images of a convoy leaving a base in Ouallam in the north, saying it was bound for neighboring Chad, to the east. The departure comes weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country as a result of the coup that removed President Mohamed Bazoum in late July. Some 1,500 French troops have been operating in Niger, training its military and conducting joint operations.Also Tuesday, the junta gave the United Nations resident coordinator in Niger, Louise Aubin, 72 hours to leave the country, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry. The junta cited “underhanded maneuvers” by the U.N. secretary-general to prevent its full participation in last month’s General Assembly in New York as one of the reasons.The military rulers had wanted Niger’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Bakary Yaou Sangare, who was made foreign minister after the coup, to speak on its behalf at the General Assembly. However, Bakary did not receive credentials to attend after the deposed Nigerien government’s foreign minister sent the world body a letter “informing of the end of functions of Mr. Bakary as permanent representative of Niger to the United Nations,” said U.N. spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.The U.N. did not immediately respond about the junta's demand for Aubin to leave. Since seizing power, Niger’s military leaders have leveraged anti-French sentiment among the population against its former colonial ruler and said the withdrawal signals a new step towards its sovereignty.The United States has formally declared that the ousting of Bazoum was a coup, suspending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid as well as military assistance and training. Niger was seen by many in the West as the last country in Africa's Sahel region — the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert — that could be partnered with to beat back a growing jihadi insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. French troops have already been ousted by military regimes in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso, which are seeing a surge in attacks.Analysts warn that France's withdrawal will leave a security vacuum that extremists could exploit. “French forces might not have defeated these groups, but at least disrupted and limited their activities, said said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based think tank.With the French out of the picture, these will likely "expand to areas where French forces were providing support to Nigerien forces, especially on the borders with Mali and Burkina Faso,” Lyammouri said. Violence has already spiked since the coup. In the month after the junta seized power, violence primarily linked to the extremists soared by more than 40%, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. Jihadi attacks targeting civilians quadrupled in August, compared with the month before, and attacks against security forces spiked in the Tillaberi region, killing at least 40 soldiers, the project reported.___Associated Press writer Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to his report.。 더불어민주당 김민석 대표가 이른바 '5·18 폄훼' 토론회를 열어 논란을 일으킨 국민의힘 이진숙 의원을 겨냥해 "여자 전두환으로 통일해서 불러 드리는 것이 어떨까 하는 생각"이라며 꼬집었습니다.김 대표는 오늘 경북 안동 경북도당에서 열린 최고위원회 마무리 발언에서 "이 의원이 '여자 히틀러'에 대해서는 시비를 걸고, '여자 전두환'에 대해서는 시비를 안 거냐는 말씀을 해주셔서, '여자 전두환이라는 호칭을 좋아하시나 보다'는 생각을 하게 됐다"고 말했습니다.앞서 김 대표는 지난 15일 민주당 순회경선에서 이 의원을 거론하며 "여자 전두환도, 여자 히틀러도 대한민국에 발붙이지 못하게 하겠다"고 말했는데, 이를 두고 이진숙 의원은 김 대표의 '여자 히틀러' 발언에 대해서만 경찰에 명예훼손 혐의로 고소했습니다.김 대표는 "여자 전두환에 대해선 본인의 명예를 훼손한다고 생각도 안 하는 것 같다"며 "전두환은 내란범으로 판결이 났기 때문에 '여자 전두환' 역시 역사적으로 정의가 될 것"이라고 지적했습니다.한병도 원내대표도 "어제 국회 운영위원회에선 이 의원 제명 촉구 결의안을 참석 의원 17명 전원 찬성으로 의결했다"며 "국민과 역사 앞에 반드시 그 책임을 묻겠다"고 강조했습니다.그러면서 "아직도 5·18이 논란과 정쟁의 한복판에 서야 하는 현실이 서글프고, 반성해야 할 이 의원은 오히려 피해자를 자처하고 국민의힘 의원들은 소리 높여 이 의원을 옹호하는 행태에 참담함을 금할 수 없었다"고 덧붙였습니다.。
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