Niger blames France for inciting failed mutiny, Paris denies involvement

Niger has blamed France for inciting last week’s thwarted military mutiny, according ‌to a government statement read on television on Friday and cited by Reuters and AFP.

On August 29, disgruntled soldiers attacked a strategic army base in Niamey and fired shots near the presidential palace. But the army and its Russian paramilitary allies eventually neutralised the mutiny.

The unrest killed three members of the presidential guard,…