France to begin evacuating its citizens from Niger on Tuesday

The French Foreign Ministry announced that Paris had decided to evacuate its nationals from Niger, starting Tuesday, "given the situation in Niamey." 

The ministry justified this decision by "the acts of violence that our embassy was exposed to the day before yesterday (Sunday) and the closure of airspace, which deprives our nationals of any possibility to leave the country by their own means." It explained that "the procedure will start today," Tuesday. 

AFP