The current conflict began on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia and others invaded Israel, killing 1,200 and taking some 250 hostage.
EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell said, “The EU has from the very beginning condemned the coup d’état in Niger in the strongest terms.”
The EU also has a small number of troops in Niger for a military training mission.
Spain cannot provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets because it did not have that jet, Spanish defence minister Margarita Robles said on Tuesday.
The move is also EU’s response to the arrival of private military contractors from the Russian Wagner Group to Mali.
