Ottawa Monitoring Niger Unrest, No Canadian Evacuation Currently Planned for Hundreds

Ottawa Monitoring Niger Unrest, No Canadian Evacuation Currently Planned for Hundreds
Supporters of mutinous soldiers demonstrate in Niamey, Niger, July 27 2023. The Canadian Press/AP-Sam Mednick
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Ottawa is monitoring the unrest in Niger following last week’s military coup, but has no imminent plans for evacuating the hundreds of Canadians in the West African country.

Global Affairs Canada says 269 people have officially registered in Ottawa’s database of citizens abroad as being in Niger, where a faction of the military claims to have overthrown democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum.