Niger Is the Fourth Country in the Sahel to Experience an Anti-Western Coup: WestAfrica
The coup in Niger follows similar coups in Mali and Burkina Faso , and Guinea . Each of these coups was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and U.S. troops and by the permanent economic crises inflicted on their countries.
This region of Africa—the Sahel—has faced a cascade of: the desiccation of the land due to the climate catastrophe, the rise of Islamic militancy due to the 2011 NATO war in Libya, the increase in smuggling networks to traffic weapons, humans, and drugs across the desert, the appropriation of natural resources—including uranium and gold—by Western companies that have simply not paid adequately for these riches, and the entrenchment of Western military forces through the construction of bases...
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