Niger's military leaders had told French ambassador Sylvain Itte he had to leave the country after they overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26.
President Macron has for weeks rejected the call to remove the French ambassador. / Photo: AP Archive
The ambassador is living off"military rations", Macron told reporters on Friday in the eastern town of Semur-en-Auxois. "They are preventing food deliveries," he said, in an apparent reference to Niger's new military rulers."He is eating military rations."
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