NIGER has suspended all cooperation with the international organisation of Francophone Nations (OIF), its military leaders said, as it progressively severs ties with former colonial ruler France. The 88-member body "has always been used by France as an instrument to defend French interests", said a spokesperson for Niger's ruling junta on national television late on Sunday. The junta seized power in a coup in July which was strongly condemned by France and other Western allies. It soon kicked out French troops which had been helping to fight a decade-old Islamist insurgency in the West African country. The OIF had already suspended most…