Algeria: Algeria Sends Fighter Jets to Niger After a Failed Military Coup

[Agenzia Fides] Niamey -- Four Su-30 fighter jets, accompanied by an Il-76 transport aircraft and an Il-78 aerial tanker, have been deployed by Algeria to Air Base 101, adjacent to Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, following the military uprising that broke out last weekend. This is the first overseas deployment of the Algerian military and demonstrates the importance Algiers attaches to the situation in its southern neighbor. This is probably the most significant geopolitical development to emerge from the attempted