Consider unprecedented military deployment in Niger Algeria's National Council, the upper house of parliament, approved a proposal on October 25 to send troops to protect energy infrastructure, according to AFP, citing an anonymous senator. The text received 148 votes from 174 senators. The proposal was to be considered by the National People's Congress, the lower house. If finally approved, this mission would be the first deployment of Algerian forces abroad since 1973. This initiative came after the signing, in October, of a memorandum for military cooperation between the security forces of the two countries. RT in French dare to ask.