Niger: Niamey announces that all French soldiers will have left the country by December 22. "All French soldiers" present in Niger as part of the anti-jihadist fight will have "definitively left" the country "by December 22," the Nigerien army said in a statement. To date, there are only 157 French soldiers left on our territory, including 75 logisticians. It is the culmination of a deep divorce between France and Niger, since the generals came to power in a coup d'état in July.