Canada is one of several Western governments that have kept their troops in Niger
as they hedge their bets on how to respond to the military coup. Western leaders have condemned the putsch and demanded the restoration of civilian rule, but they have been ambivalent on whether to sever all their security ties with the strategically important country.
“At this time, there is no change to the number of members in Niger mentioned earlier,” National Defence spokesperson Andrew McKelvey told The Globe and Mail by e-mail on Friday. Canada, for example, has continued to maintain ties with authoritarian rulers in countries such as Uganda and Rwanda. The United States has close relations with autocrats in oil-rich regimes in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and elsewhere.
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