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Following a dispute with the ruling military government in Niger, the remaining members of the of the European civilian reconstruction mission EUCAP in the West African country are to leave as quickly as possible, an EU spokeswoman in Brussels told dpa. The spokeswoman said that in the short term, the bloc had been forced to speed up the withdrawal of the EUCAP Sahel Niger mission. The mission’s international security personnel deployed by EU member states will return to Europe as quickly as possible, she said. In December, the ruling military junta in Niger decided to cancel cooperation with …

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