Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU’s largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France.

  • what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If we accept the most likely angle - that it’s Putin and/or Wagner tut have been driving these Sahel coups - then cutting off Exports to France is a very logical step for the coupists - and it’s easy to see these coups as just one of many steps in Russia’s hybrid war against the western structure.

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      1 year ago

      Not denying any potential invomvement, but you don’t exactly need external interference to convince Africans that France is robbing them