That's just flat-out wrong. I've already outlined how it will. And here is the proof that they do (even without including asylum):
Niger Coup
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All that's useless. Aid is just used for political purposes, paying churches for religious conversions, buying Western products at marked up prices, diverting money for criminal activities, clandestine activities etc.
What Africa needs is real development, like schools, hospitals and skill development, which requires investments. Also infrastructure, power, transportation etc.
Aid is all a scam, only investments bring tangible benefits, 'cause people involved actually care about the money they are spending.
It tells you exactly what the aid is spent on, and it is not political.
That would come under 'Social', Economic' and 'Production'.
Your posts are a scam, you ignore all the facts and imagine your own. I've invested time in reading your posts with no tangible benefits.
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It tells you exactly what the aid is spent on, and it is not political.
That would come under 'Social', Economic' and 'Production'.
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Your posts are a scam, you ignore all the facts and imagine your own. I've invested time in reading your posts with no tangible benefits.
Lol. Foreign aid is pretty much one of the biggest scams in the world to fool gullible people like you.
It's why the UK was desperate to continue providing aid to India. Money went to NGOs, and then a large chunk of it simply disappears.
Most aid money goes to politicians and their stooges anyway. We know quite a bit about how it works.
Active intervention from NATO is the way to go.
It clearly says what the aid was spent on, and it wasn't politicians. Indian propaganda is one of the biggest scams in the world.
As has perhaps been said, this coup d'état is taking place at the same time as the commissioning of Africa's largest pipeline between Niger and Cotonou in Benin, with a view to exporting a whopping 35 million barrels of oil a year... The pipeline is being built by China Petroleum ...
(wapo, aug.03)
Opinion President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage
Mohamed Bazoum is the president of the Republic of Niger.I write this as a hostage. Niger is under attack from a military junta that is trying to overthrow our democracy, and I am just one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned. This coup, launched against my government by a faction in the military on July 26, has no justification whatsoever. If it succeeds, it will have devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world.
Our government came to power through a democratic election in 2021. Any attempt to overthrow a lawful government must be opposed, and we appreciate the strong and unequivocal condemnations of this cynical effort to undermine the remarkable progress Niger has made under democracy. The United States, the African and European Unions, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have been loud and clear: This coup must end, and the junta must free everyone they have unlawfully arrested.
The coup plotters falsely claim that they acted to protect Niger’s security. They allege that our war against jihadist terrorists is failing and that my economic and social governance, including partnerships with the United States and Europe, has hurt our country.
In fact, Niger’s security situation has improved dramatically — facilitated by the very partnerships the junta opposes. Foreign aid makes up 40 percent of our national budget, but it will not be delivered if the coup succeeds.
To the south, where we face the terrorist group Boko Haram, there have been almost no attacks for two years, and refugees are returning to their villages. As a testament to this reality, our partners, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, are shifting their operations from humanitarian aid to development initiatives such as building sustainable energy, improving agricultural productivity and educating the next generation of Nigerien leaders.
The country’s north and west have likewise suffered no major attacks since I took office in 2021. Thanks to our allies’ support and training from partners, including the Indiana National Guard, Niger is now the safest it has been in the past 15 years.
Notably, Niger’s security situation is significantly better than that of our neighbors Mali and Burkina Faso, whose governments, both installed by military takeovers, support the illegal coup. Rather than addressing security concerns by strengthening their own capacity, they employ criminal Russian mercenaries such as the Wagner Group at the expense of their people’s rights and dignity.
My government has been similarly successful in terms of economic and social governance. After a slow recovery from covid-19 in 2021, our per capita growth rate more than tripled to 7.4 percent last year.
2022 was Niger’s first year without a single school day lost to strikes from teachers or students. Workers did not go on strike in any major sector, and my administration signed landmark agreements with unions to create a safer and more stable working environment across the nation.
In March, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Niger “a model of resilience, a model of democracy, a model of cooperation.”
We cannot afford to lose this momentum. Recognizing the threat that Niger’s potential fall poses to the region, our neighbors in ECOWAS have announced unprecedented sanctions, including a ban on exports and imports of oil, and a suspension of cross-border financial transactions.
These measures are already demonstrating what a future would look like under an autocratic junta with no vision or reliable allies. The price of rice rose by 40 percent between Sunday and Tuesday, and some neighborhoods have begun to report shortages of goods and electricity.
In Africa’s troubled Sahel region, Niger stands as the last bastion of respect for human rights amid the authoritarian movements that have overtaken some of our neighbors. While this coup attempt is a tragedy for Nigeriens, its success would have devastating consequences far beyond our borders.
With an open invitation from the coup plotters and their regional allies, the entire central Sahel region could fall to Russian influence via the Wagner Group, whose brutal terrorism has been on full display in Ukraine.
Boko Haram and other terrorist movements will surely take advantage of Niger’s instability, using our country as a staging ground to attack neighboring countries and undermine peace, safety and freedom around the world. They will ramp up their efforts to target our youths with hateful anti-Western indoctrination, turning them against the very partners who are helping us build a more hopeful future.
In our hour of need, I call on the U.S. government and the entire international community to help us restore our constitutional order. Fighting for our shared values, including democratic pluralism and respect for the rule of law, is the only way to make sustainable progress against poverty and terrorism. The Nigerien people will never forget your support at this pivotal moment in our history. /end
(I note that France is not mentioned once)
A country that actually needs American assistance.
What's your opinion about this coup and this article?
Some air force units had attempted a coup back in 2021 though. It was right after a new president was sworn in, after the previous one finished his maximum 2 terms. People may not have accepted the new guy, even though he's from the same party.
I also think it's more related to a string of coups conducted in many countries since 2021; Mali, Guinea and Sudan. All three were military coups, the same as Niger. All 4 were conducted in 2021, but only the Niger one failed back then. Plus it didn't involve the army.
Then there was Burkina Faso in 2022, twice. But this country was already at war.
Interestingly all these countries are Muslim, so the populations here are less friendly to Western presence in case an intervention is carried out.
I feel sorry for the Africans. Out of sentimentality, the French are attached to this continent (I'm not talking about companies, they're just doing business), but here's the thing: "Dad's Africa" is over.
It is in the interests of Africa, France and Europe that African governments should be legitimate in the eyes of their peoples. Their legitimacy in principle ensures the stability of the country. Stability encourages investment and therefore economic prosperity. And education.
This virtuous circle would reduce the 2 main risks to which European countries are exposed: forced immigration and terrorism.
Instability in Africa obliges us (either for our direct security or by virtue of defence agreements with the countries concerned) to deploy resources there.
But these resources are not scalable, and are needed in other regions of the world where France intends to play a greater role: I'm thinking of the IOR, Oceania and the Pacific.
Those who, behind the scenes, promote coups d'état in (French-speaking) Africa do so deliberately in order to
- weaken France's influence in the region, that's for sure
- and perhaps also in the hope that regional instability will encourage us to redeploy military and financial resources there that we cannot deploy elsewhere (IOR, etc).
I thought the article had only been published in the Wapo, i.e. for the American public only (which would explain why the author didn't mention France), but it has also been published on the website of the Niger Presidency. In French, as that is the official language of Niger.
Tribune écrite par le Président de la République S.E.M Mohamed Bazoum et publiée dans le Washington post. - Présidence de la République du Niger
Présidence de la République du Niger
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