Algeria to send troops to Niger in first foreign deployment in over 50 years
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Algeria's parliament approved a resolution to send troops to neighbouring Niger to protect energy facilities and combat armed groups along their 960-kilometre border. This marks Algeria's first foreign military deployment since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The upper house approved the proposal with all 148 attending members voting in favour, while the lower house passed it by an absolute majority.
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