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Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland wave the Niger national flag and flag bearing the logo of private military Company Wagner as they gather to protest ouside the Niger and French airbase to demand the departure of the French army from Niger in Niamey on September 16, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

A Nigerian soldier on the back of a gun boat surveys a creek for illegal oil refineries during a patrole on April 19, 2017, in the Niger Delta region near the city of Warri. (Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images)

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Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland display a French national flag with a x-mark on during a protest outside Niger and French airbase in Niamey on September 1, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

A vehicle with Somali National Army soldiers on patrol on October 17, 2022, near Doolow in the Gedo region of South West, Somalia. (Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)

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A soldier of Somalia's breakaway territory of Somaliland stands guard during a parade in Hargeisa on May 18, 2016. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images)

People stand on the debris of the house which was razed to ground during the gunfight between militants and Indian security forces in Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir on October 16, 2021. (Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) gather for a demonstration in Niamey on August 11, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin with Ibrahim Traore and Dennis Fassou Nguesso during the annual Navy Day Parade on July 30, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (via Getty Images)