The Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) released a statement saying that two helicopters reconditioned by its Defence Industries Agency (AID) have been sold to Niger to increase its capacity to counter illegal trafficking and security threats.
Italian Minister of Defence Lorenzo Guerini attended the handover ceremony and visited Italian military personnel deployed as part of the Bilateral Support Mission in the Republic of Niger (MISIN), which began in 2018 and covered support for Benin, Mauritania, and Nigeria.
