The coup detat in Nijer is causing military tension in the Central Western Africa. It follows the military coup in Bukina Faso, Mali and Guinea. The countries of Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, supported by France are against the coup forces in those countries and are willing to send military forces against the coup. The military coups in those military governments are supported by Russian Wagner as you may know from recent news. There could be a war between France and allied countries vs the military coups supported by Russia in the area.
They say the universal currency, CFA, is used in trading or financial settlements in ECOWAS countries. CFA is controlled at higher value than it really is worth. Poor countries could hardly improve the trade balance with currency depriciation. Together with the history of colonization of those countries by France, the peoples seem to have complaints against the governments and France on their back.
The problem involves in natural resources in the area, such as uranium, gold or diamond. They say France has been importing 25% of uranium necessary to run the nuclear power plants from Niger. Russia must be interested in it also. We should remember the big countries outside there are causing or, at least, facilitating the military tension or even war.
Even though it is an absolute crime that Russia has invaded Ukraine, there seems to be a struggle between Russia and the western countries for the interest in natural gas of enourmous amount in the Black Sea as well as inland of Ukraine.
It is not clear what and how we could do with those problems. At least, we should keep ourselves concerned about such a problem, which is often less informed and overlooked.
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