The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.
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Lowkey interviews Nigerian journalist, activist, and founder of West Africa Weekly David Hundeyin about the recent coup in Niger and the possibility of intervention.
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A veteran South African official detailed meeting with an unprepared and “desperate” Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, begging for local help rolling back the popular coup in Niger. The recent BRICS conference might give Nuland even more to fret about. When US Acting Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, traveled to South Africa on July 29, her reputation as a blunt instrument of Washington’s hegemonic interests preceded her. According to a veteran South African official who attended meetings […]
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Like the OAS in South America and ASEAN on the Asian continent, ECOWAS serves as a cudgel for US power projection in Africa, and as Alan Macleod reveals, it is now being leveraged against Niger.
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Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, West African nations of the ECOWAS bloc have threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Hours after Niger’s Western-backed leader was detained by the country’s presidential guard on July 28, Nigerian President and chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Bola Tinubu leapt […]
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