Last Saturday military-backed forces of Niger’s presidential guard detained and overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, marking the African nation’s fifth military coup since gaining independence from France in 1960. The head of the presidential guard General Abdourahmane quickly declared himself the new leader of Niger’s government: While such affairs are of course interesting in their own right, recent developments in Niger reverberate far beyond the ever shifting sands of coup-torn African politics, and threaten to involve both France and Russia, and even the United States in an increasingly volatile African powder keg.The deposed President Bazoum was an important Western ally in terms of facilitating both Niger’s cooperation with the West to combat terrorist groups in Africa. Having a cooperative ally in Niger (some would say “puppet”) was […]
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