“The last thing we need is another confrontation!” Meryem is gesturing in front of the phone camera. Angry: because he does not see how Military intervention Niger may prefer the region; and because your interlocutors tread on each other and are hard to hear – although they all think the same thing. In Bamako, the hours were lengthened, however, in the video discussion of the fellowship of young Malian workers. And the thing is, despite being almost 1,400 kilometers from the city of Niamey, Financial The USA and Niger share much more than a river and a border: communities, armed groups, roads, desert, and now possible threat of imminent war.
The pace has increased lately. Friday afternoon: Eight commanders of the army Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) They meet at the critical operational meeting in Accra to define the intervention in Niger, announcing that “D-Day” has already been agreed and the time for negotiation is running out. Only two of the seven countries bordering Niger support this hypothetical intervention and contribute to the military: Nigeria And Benin. The other two allied with the Nigerian junta: Mali and Burkina Faso. Saturday: Mali and Burkina Faso swap places warplanes There are several mobilizations in Niamey to support Niger and face the possible “offensive”. If neighbors attack, hundreds of young people enlist to help the junta, and hundreds of women demonstrate against the French presence in the country. Saturday afternoon: a delegation arrived in Niamey for negotiation.
July 26 coup in Niger regional and international earthquake. Although the local military takeover of power – without deaths – did not close all the shops, the new junta took control of the lungs of many geostrategic interests in the region. beach. And within three weeks, “democracy anxiety” adorned the threats of all countries that would lose much if they had great allies. Mohamed Bazoum The deposed president, who continues to be held by the putschists, is not his interlocutor. FranceThe former colonial power has recently redeployed most of its soldiers in Niger, which it had expelled from Mali and Burkina Faso in the past two years, and may lose that last remnant with another junta following the same trend.
uranium and food
Trucks pass over this vast country of the Sahel, which is not used to the attention of the media. uranium and bringing planes food, suddenly finds himself in the middle of the hurricane, on the verge of a dangerous explosion of shock waves. But the thing that has affected the population of 25 million the most since the coup is, sanctions. The blockade imposed by the regional economic organization Cedeao, rising prices Food in a country where half the country lives povertyand instead he didn’t even tickle the general Abdourahmane Tchiani and new leaders who have normalized their positions and have already appointed a new government.
Meryem and her friends experience déjà vu and worry about their Nigerian brethren: “Leave us citizens alone!” Malians have also experienced the hardships of being isolated by their neighbors as punishment for their coup – a first in the region, despite tremendous civilian support, the coup that opened the series in 2020. It has lost the respect of many because of this – ECOWAS, an organization that “agrees to play with constitutions if the third powers are passed, but admits that the people have not decided to hold their corrupt leaders accountable,” Abdurrahman frowned. – that you can’t control the angle of your phone.
In three weeks rice It became unavailable in Niger; And armed group attacks concentrated in the field. triple border. That vertex that unites the triangle of allies: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger. The Nigerian Army has reduced its troops in the region to fortify the capital, considering the possible intervention of ECOWAS and Islamic State And JNIMThey take advantage of it. “Cedeao, Cedeao… – Mariam took the floor – can you tell me why they didn’t mobilize the same soldiers to help us against terrorism?”