{"id":6841,"date":"2026-10-03T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:25:05","slug":"algeria-sent-fighter-jets-to-niger-to-thwart-coup-attempt-president-says-military-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=6841","title":{"rendered":"Algeria sent fighter jets to Niger to thwart \u2018coup attempt\u2019, president says | Military News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Abdelmadjid Tebboune says Algiers deployed warplanes to Niamey in late August following an attack by mutineers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Algeria\u2019s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said that his country sent fighter jets to Niger in late August to help thwart a \u201ccoup attempt<\/a>\u201d that shook the capital, Niamey.<\/p>\n

The confirmation came in excerpts from Tebboune\u2019s interview with local media outlets that was broadcast on Saturday ahead of its full release.<\/p>\n

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Tebboune said that the warplanes were sent because some parties had \u201cgone too far\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added that Niger\u2019s Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, had been visiting Algeria and returned home at night just before the mutiny.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor obvious reasons, this is a provocation against us \u2026 and I too will send planes and we\u2019ll meet head-on,\u201d Tebboune said.<\/p>\n

He did not specify who he meant when he said some had gone too far, or whether he was referring to internal or external actors.<\/p>\n

Sustained gunfire and explosions<\/a> were heard in Niamey overnight on August 28 into August 29.<\/p>\n

A military base at Diori Hamani International Airport was first targeted by renegade soldiers, followed by attacks on the state broadcaster and presidential palace.<\/p>\n

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A military armoured vehicle on the street in Niamey following the attack by mutineers on the airport and presidency on August 30, 2026 [File: Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Niger\u2019s Minister of Defence, General Salifou Modi, announced at the time that a group of military personnel attempted to detain a number of their colleagues at Air Base 101, and opened fire on strategic locations in the capital.<\/p>\n

Security forces had intervened and managed to contain the situation, gradually regaining control over the targeted locations, he added.<\/p>\n

On August 30 , the Algerian Ministry of Defence said it had sent four fighter jets to Niger following 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 \u00a0the ministry added then.<\/p>\n

Niger\u2019s military government last month accused France<\/a> of orchestrating the failed mutiny, but France denied any involvement in the events in its former colony.<\/p>\n

Algeria and Niger share close security and military ties, as well as a long land border, with Algeria viewing the stability of the Sahel region as an essential component of its national security.<\/p>\n

Niger\u2019s Prime Minister Zeine met President Tebboune when he visited Algeria on August 26\u201327 as the head of a high-level ministerial delegation aimed at enhancing cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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