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On 26 July 2023, senior members of Niger’s presidential guard, normally tasked with protecting President Mohamed Bazoum, announced that they had ousted him from power, holding him hostage inside his official residence. Subsequently, on 28 July, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the commander of the presidential guard, declared himself the head of the military-run National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, and the former chief of army staff, General Salifou Mody, who was dismissed by President Bazoum in March, was appointed his deputy…

France has recently, under the very inept and unprofessional rule of its President Emmanuel Macron, lost all of its once strong position in Africa. The latest example of this has been the incredibly tense relationship between France and Morocco, with the French government and media launching an unprecedented campaign of criticism against the Arab state. And this came at a time of its national crisis, when the country’s Atlas region was significantly devastated by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Official Paris’s exasperated approach to these events provoked surprise and negative reactions from both former…

Niger’s new interim government has rightly accused France of sending its troops and “a large amount of military equipment” to the region in preparation for a possible invasion to overthrow leaders that toppled the previous president, who was a puppet of Paris. Officers in Niger’s military claim that troops from the French Armed Forces have been deployed in several West African countries in preparation for a military attack on Niger’s new leadership, to be mounted in coordination with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Colonel Amadou Abdramane, spokesman for the Nigerien coup leaders and its new interim government, made the above claims in an announcement on national television…