Opinion | President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage
www.washingtonpost.com
The world must help us stop the military seizure of power in the African nation.

This is an opinion piece by the democratically elected president of Niger.

  • livus@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    Wagner are already in the neighbouring countries and have been for years.

    It’s just that many people in the West didn’t notice them until Ukraine. It’s the Bader Meinhoff effect.

    Niger is a major source of uranium and has both French and US military bases, so it’s higher in the Western news cycle than Mali was.