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France will evacuate French and European citizens from Niger starting on Tuesday (1 August), its foreign ministry said, days after a junta seized power in the west African country.

Niger’s borders have been closed to commercial flights since military officers ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and his democratically elected government last Wednesday, in the seventh military takeover in less than three years in West and Central Africa.

The coup has sent shockwaves across the Sahel region, where Niger’s Western allies fear