{"id":11293,"date":"2026-10-25T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=11293"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:47:10","slug":"algerian-parliaments-upper-house-approves-troop-deployment-to-niger-military-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=11293","title":{"rendered":"Algerian parliament\u2019s upper house approves troop deployment to Niger | Military News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vote to send forces comes after a recent defence pact between two neighbouring countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The upper house of Algeria\u2019s parliament has unanimously approved the deployment of troops to neighbouring Niger.<\/p>\n

The Algerian constitution empowers the president to send military units abroad, provided that both chambers of parliament approve it by a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n

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The Council of the Nation held an emergency session on Sunday to vote on troop deployment, while the People\u2019s National Assembly, or the lower house, is expected to hold a separate session later in the evening, Algeria\u2019s popular newspaper El Khabar reported. If the deployment is approved, it would be the first mission outside Algeria\u2019s borders since the 1973 War between Israel and several Arab countries, known to Arabs as the October War and Israelis as the Yom Kippur War.<\/p>\n

The military units to be deployed by Algeria are expected to be tasked with securing oil facilities in Niger.<\/p>\n

The vote came after a visit by Niger\u2019s Defence Minister General Salifou Modi to Algeria last week, where he held talks with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Chief of Staff of the People\u2019s National Army General Said Chanegriha.<\/p>\n

During that visit, the two sides signed a military cooperation protocol, the details of which were not made public.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Tebboune confirmed<\/a> that Algeria sent fighter jets to Niger in late August to help thwart a \u201ccoup attempt<\/a>\u201d that shook the capital, Niamey.<\/p>\n

The Algerian Ministry of Defence previously said it had sent four jets to Niger following the unrest. It said two patrols of four Sukhoi Su-30 aircraft had landed at Niamey airport, accompanied by an air-to-air refuelling plane.<\/p>\n

The warplanes were deployed at the request of Nigerien authorities on \u201ca mission to support the Nigerien army in confronting an attempt to destabilise the brotherly state of Niger\u201d, the ministry said on August 30.<\/p>\n

Relations between Algeria and Niger have witnessed a significant rapprochement over the past few months on political, diplomatic, military and economic levels, following a period of tension between the two countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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