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US/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger - Fears of war in West Africa

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Hmm, so we have Russia sponsoring a coup and installing a military junta, and somehow this is western neocolonialism?
Those mouthpieces and farmed trolls really don't pretend to be trying hard anymore. Sure thing this is helping the population of Niger, one of the poorest in the world, right?
- oh look at you spreading conspiracy theories https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/africa/italy-dismisses-russias-involvement-in-niger-coup-as-joe-biden-urges-bazoum-release-articleshow.html
  
  Yeah and all those Russian flags and "vive Poutine" signs just happened to have been found laying around, a country that's "just" 5000km away. How delusional must you be :)
  Edit: almost forgot https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/republic-world/
France hasn't threatened anyone. It states that it would défend its citizen and assets, should they be attacked. CDAO announced they would intervene if the elected president is not freed and reinstated.
- Defend it's asset huh?
  But isnt it weird that nigers uranium produces 40% of Frances electricity while only 11% of nigers citizens even have access to electricity?
  
  France does not sources 40% of its uranium from Niger, quite far from that. 10% of uranium it uses comes from Niger. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uranium-mines-niger-worlds-7th-biggest-producer-2023-07-28/
  
  Disinformation. France sources 10% of its uranium supply from Niger. It has companies doing business with Niger, as many other countries do. But of course you can blame France for every issue in every African country. It is a really bad country with horrible people in it.
- Learn to parse imperialism speech, noob

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