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NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemm.ee )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states

www.aljazeera.com

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Niger says France amassing troops, equipment in ECOWAS states

www.aljazeera.com

NightOwl ( NightOwl@lemm.ee )  to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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Niger says France is gathering troops, equipment in Senegal, Ivory Coast and Benin with a view to military intervention.
  • GCostanzaStepOnMe ( GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ) 
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    France about to do a colonialism again

    • GenEcon ( GenEcon@lemm.ee ) 
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      So far a leader of a military group, which has just overthrown a democratic elected leader, which cooperates with the Wagner group to secure their might, claims that France is doing that.

      I would put a big question mark behind that claim and wait for reliable sources.

      • balls_expert ( balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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        Democratically elected my ass. The popular support for the coup, however misguided it is, seems overwhelming among the locals

        We the french have no right to force a democracy upon them. Doesn’t matter how stupid we think this is

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        They haven’t overthrown any democratic elected leader, the only person they’ve overthrown was Bazoum.

    • Kbin_space_program ( Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 
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      France about to depose a military coup? Recall this is the junta that deposed Niger’s president that is claiming France is going to invade.

      • GCostanzaStepOnMe ( GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ) 
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        Honestly I wouldn’t be able to tell which side is the good one here.

        • Kbin_space_program ( Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 
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          Yeah, fully admit all I really know is that the deposed president was democratically elected, that the military junta was not, that Russia is suspected of BS, and that the migrant issue is potentially involved.

          The first one is the important one to me, that its a Ecowas sanctioned military dictatorship making the claim that Ecowas is going to invade with France’s help.

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            The thing is europe and the west in general is bleeding africa of it’s ressources and even though it topples a democraticly elected president the goal they claim is to free themselves of postcolonialism wich could be very good for africa. But yeah always hard to know woch side tells the truth…

            • possibly a cat ( doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml ) B
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              • Dreyns ( Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) 
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                I’m french and mostly live in a cave so I have no idea. I only know the basics of the problem.

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                I’m french and mostly live in a cave so I have no idea. I only know the basics of the problem.

        • Tangentism ( Tangentism@lemmy.ml ) 
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          If the end goal of either side isnt the redistribution of the countries wealth, increasing health, education and housing programs then they can both get fucked

          • bingbong ( bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            Based

        • sederx ( sederx@programming.dev ) 
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          Because there’s never one?

    • HobbitFoot  ( HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) 
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      France used to control Niger the same way that Russia controlled Ukraine. Now that Niger and Ukraine are independent countries, I’m sure the response to both will be consistent.

      • Pili ( Pili@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Lol what? Did you miss the leaked call revealing that the 2014 coup was to make Ukraine a US puppet state?

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