ニジェール：ロシアの軍事顧問団を受け入れ

　民主的に選出された政権を覆し、軍事クーデターをして、西欧の（それまでの）同盟者たちと縁切りしたニジェール。ロシアに接近する態度が明らかだったがこの度、軍事顧問団というか訓練指導者を受け入れ。

BBC Russians arrive in Niger as military accord starts 20 minutes ago
By Kathryn Armstrong in London & Chris Ewokor in Abuja

　数十名規模（dozens of ～）。

「Dozens of Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger as part of a new accord with the country's junta, which has cut links with its Western allies.

State media report that they arrived along with a state-of-the-art air defence system.

They are expected to install the system and teach Niger's army how to use it.

The West African country is one of three fighting an Islamist insurgency in the Sahel region to have recently strengthened ties with Russia.」

　ロシアとの軍事協定に基づくもので、防空システムもついてきたそう。

「The Russian Defence Ministry's paramilitary group Africa Corps, also known as the Russian Expeditionary Corps (REK), wrote on Telegram that this was the first group of servicemen and volunteers to go to Niger.」

「Niger's democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum was overthrown last year by the junta, which has since cut military and diplomatic ties with France - the former colonial power - and revoked an agreement with the US.」

　米国や旧植民地勢力（フランス）と縁を切り、フラン圏から離脱して自立を―という方向性は個々の判断として、ロシアとの連携か―…。まあ領土を攻め取られる恐れはまあありませんから。