Niger’s military government has announced the nationalisation of the country’s sole industrial gold mine, accusing its Australian operator of “serious breaches” as the junta seeks greater control of natural resources.
The military junta has ruled the West African nation since seizing power in a 2023 coup, promising to crack down on Niger’s myriad security issues.
Juntas in Niger, neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali have ramped up pressure on foreign mining companies in recent years, with Niger nationalising the local branch of French uranium giant Orano in June.
The post-coup government is broadly supported by its people precisely because it kicked out the comprador government that actually did spend all of their kickbacks on lavish material goods as bribery from siphoning all of that wealth outside. You’re justifying the western narrative against the Sahel States despite the people supporting the new government as though you know better than them. No investigation, no right to speak.
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Nice bit of ableism there. I’m going to cheer for what materially benefits the people of Niger and how they choose to chart their own course, and I’m going to call out chauvanists that think they should be able to tell the people of Niger what to think and how to best express their soveriengty.
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Niger has representative democracy, it isn’t a dictatorship. The incredibly unpopular previous government was couped and the new government is far more supported. Stop batting for imperialism and judging countries you have no familiarity with.
They literally suffered from a military coup two years ago.
Gen Tiani rules the country with an increasingly iron fist. He has promised a return to civilian rule, but those promises keep slipping. First it was three years, now two years later, it’s another five years.
Sounds like Ukraine
Yes, a popularly supported coup, against an unpopular government. Would you be saying that, in the event of a coup against Trump, that this is actually a bad thing? Even better, the government is aligned with other progressive states and against imperialism.
Yes, progressive states like Russia and North Korea.
You are stanning for a military dictatorship that’s been disappearing protesters and journalists.
They were kicked out of the African Union for being a repressive military dictatorship.
I’m not “stanning” anything, I’m supporting a progressive national liberation movement against imperialism. French and Australian imperialists are working overtime to smear and depict the Sahel States in as negative a light as possible, when these countries are trying to regain sovereignty over their own industry and resources. National liberation against imperialism is progressive, but western chauvanists will cry and bleat, just like they did with the Haitian revolution, Algerian revolution, Burkina Faso’s revolution under Sankara, the Cuban revolution, Korean revolution, Chinese revolution, Vietnamese revolution, Nicaraguan revolution, and countless others.
Every accusation of yours is a confession, you’re complaining about a popular movement to nationalize industry at great personal cost in the short term. If the gov just wanted to profit, they would work with the imperialists, and live as compradors, rather than facing sanctions from the west for exerting sovereignty.
Read How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney and stop being a far-right chauvanist.