Nearly a month after it was shut down, the military junta in the Niger Republic declared that all commercial flights will be permitted once more.
The country’s airspace, which was shut down on August 6, reportedly reopened on Monday, according to a representative for the transport ministry.
Air France and other European carriers were forced to suspend some flights and take longer routes across Africa after the Niger Republic’s military leaders, who overthrew the country’s elected President Mohamed Bazoum in a bloodless coup on July 26 and assumed constitutional power, shut down the nation’s airspace on August 6.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West African regional organization, had threatened to intervene militarily, according to the Niger junta, which had consequently shut down airspace.