Germany to Build Military Base in Niger to Help UN Mission
Germany has announced that they will build a military base in Niger to support the United Nations’ mission in Mali.
The UN is currently implementing a mission in Mali to fight against jihadi terrorists.
Bernd von Munchow-Pohl, Germany’s ambassador to Niamey, Niger’s capital city, said that the build of the base would mainly be to assist the UN’s peacekeeping efforts in Mali.
He also said that German chancellor, Angela Merkel, will visit Niger within the next few days.
“…With the establishment of a German military airbase in Niamey in support of the MINUSMA mission in Mali, which Niger has supported since the beginning, a new chapter in our cooperation has begun…[sic] Germany is ready to engage more in the Sahel region and assume even more responsibility,” he said.
Germany will now join the likes of France and the United States that have already established military bases in Niger to help the UN’s efforts against jihadi terrorists in Mali and neighbouring Libya.
