The people of Niger would like to run their own country. From M.K. Bhadrakumar at azerbaycan24.com:
A supporter of Niger’s National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) demonstrates in Niamey on August 10, 2023 © AFP
Neo-colonial powers have become entangled in a diplomatic and military impasse borne from a fundamental lack of understanding By M. K. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat who has served in Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, West Germany, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, before ultimately retiring as Indian Ambassador to Türkiye.By M. K. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat who has served in Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, West Germany, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, before ultimately retiring as Indian Ambassador to Türkiye.A supporter of Niger’s National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) demonstrates in Niamey on August 10, 2023 © AFP
The military coup in Niger is over three weeks old. The military government is cementing its rule, having gained the upper hand in the shadow play with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) backed by ex-colonial powers ravaging that desperately poor West African state rich in mineral wealth – France, Germany, and Italy – and the United States.
The prospects of Niger’s pro-Western President Mohamed Bazoum being reinstated look dim. He is an ethnic Arab with a small power base in a predominantly African country, hailing from the migrant Ouled Slimane tribe, which has a history of being France’s fifth column in the Sahel region locked in a struggle with the ancient Tuareg people, the large Berber group that principally inhabits the Sahara in a vast area stretching from Libya to Algeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and northern Nigeria.
ECOWAS lost the initiative once the coup leaders defied its August 6 deadline to release Bazoum and reinstate him on pain of military action. In fact, the coup leaders have since audaciously threatened the visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (who famously choreographed and navigated the transition following the coup in Ukraine in 2014) that they would physically eliminate Bazoum if she pushed the envelope.
You know they don’t Brandon to pronounce the name Niger on live teevee!
Good on Africa (54 nations) to break free of the imperialists of France or any other imperialists.
Keep an eye on South Africa as part of the BRICS+ to start kicking against the FUSA.
O/T-Just read 61 F-16’s coming to the Kraine.
The Ukes will legalize porno movie making to fund the war effort, no oligarch strawberry showgirls will be filmed. (sarc)
Denmark will provide some fighter jets, Germany will not provide Taurus missiles yet due to the approval ratings of comrade Scholz.
Cannon fodder from the GAE rump vassals won’t be happening…yet.