Western governments have demonized the coup in Niger and threatened intervention, but polls conducted by The Economist show that 78% of Nigeriens support the military government’s anti-colonial policies. (Full video below)
France, which colonized West Africa, is extremely unpopular. Paris still dominates the region’s economies by imposing the colonial CFA franc currency. The top export of Niger and neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso is gold. Billions of dollars of wealth is siphoned out of these countries every year, but their people don’t benefit. These nations remain some of the poorest on Earth.
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