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Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France (english.almayadeen.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU's largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If we accept the most likely angle - that it’s Putin and/or Wagner tut have been driving these Sahel coups - then cutting off Exports to France is a very logical step for the coupists - and it’s easy to see these coups as just one of many steps in Russia’s hybrid war against the western structure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not denying any potential invomvement, but you don't exactly need external interference to convince Africans that France is robbing them