#Niger

Algeria's jets and the farce of Sahel saviours

Algiers denounced Niger's 2023 coup as illegitimate. Now it lands fighter jets on the junta's airbase — without the parliamentary approval its own constitution requires. Algeria's Niger adventure is not solidarity; it is power theatre, staged for Moscow's cameras.

4 October 2026 · 2 min read

An Algerian Air Force Su-30 during aerial refuelling

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Algeria confirms it flew fighter jets into Niger to stop a 'coup attempt', president says

Algeria's President Tebboune confirmed on October 3 that Algiers sent four Su-30 fighter jets to Niger in late August after mutineers attacked a military base, the state broadcaster and the presidential palace in Niamey — breaking with its non-intervention doctrine.

4 October 2026 · 2 min read