Niger

Lowkey interviews Nigerian journalist, activist, and founder of West Africa Weekly David Hundeyin about the recent coup in Niger and the possibility of intervention.
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Russia and China jointly are enabling what used to be called “the Third World countries” (victims of Western imperialism) to stand up for their rights against their colonizer, which is always backed by the U.S. Government. Russia and China do this breaking-up of the U.S.-and-‘allied’ global-imperial grip, as a tag-team, […]

There were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways “neo-colonies” of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries than the more than 300 years of French “on-the-ground” colonies, or enslavement. Though, this latter crime is not to be discarded at all. It has […]

A veteran South African official detailed meeting with an unprepared and “desperate” Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, begging for local help rolling back the popular coup in Niger. The recent BRICS conference might give Nuland even more to fret about. When US Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, traveled to South Africa on July 29, her reputation as a blunt instrument of Washington’s hegemonic interests preceded her. According to a veteran South African official who attended meetings […]

[Prefatory Note: The original interview on the coup in Niger with Zahra Mizrafarjouyan of Mehr Agency in Tehran was published on Aug. 14, 2023. A lot has happened since then that affects Niger, and how we understand its relation to that country, to West Africa’s Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the geopolitical war […]

Leslie Amine (Benin), Swamp, 2022 In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party. This election result posed a problem for French colonial authorities, who wanted Diori to lead the new Niger. […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) —— Here are the original youtube news-report and a Web-archived copy of it (in case it becomes removed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJckDws2POM Nigerien Youth Coup Reaction VOA Africa 395 views  6 days ago The military coup in Niger, unlike previous ones in West Africa, has elicited strong support from young people in the […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars each year in order to squeeze Russia hard enough to bring about the overthrow of Vladimir Putin and his replacement by a U.S. stooge. On August 17h, a front-page headline in the New York Times was “Niger Coup May Slow […]

 Globe and Mail omissions enable its wild foreign policy claims. By failing to mention crucial history Canada’s ‘paper of record’ can claim the military spreads the “democratic gospel” in Africa. A recent front page Globe story headlined “Honduran women risk death and imprisonment as they try to access reproductive care” discussed the plight of women […]