2023 Nigerien coup d'état

Those countries have governments that are fully under the thumb and under full control so they say what their puppet masters want them to say and do what their puppet masters want them to do.

Do you see the irony of the west calling any dissenter on western policy to be Putins puppets?

Algeria should have its ass in its pants and set up a no-fly zone (and ground buffers) in the northern area ala Libya 2011!

Of course, it can also wait like a mouse in front of a cobra until it is its own turn, but no one will be there to help.

Serbias neighbours were quick to deny Russia air transit to the region to please the US and prevent Russia from helping Serbia in the region... I would suspect Algeria would like to do the same to France if they can.

@WarMonitors
BREAKING Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared in a video for the first time in a while, this time from Africa and invites people to join the ranks of Wagner PMC.

https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1693682725922783447

The Niger Government is telling most Western diplomats to leave. Naturally the French say "Non". They may have a problem.

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
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Soldiers and Special Forces from the Nigerien Armed Forces have been Deployed at Checkpoints leading to Airbase 101 at Diori Hamani International Airport in the Capital of Niamey which is home to roughly 2,000 U.S, French and Allied Military Personnel; though the real question is are they there against or with Western Forces.

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Soldiers and Special Forces from the Nigerien Armed Forces have been Deployed at Checkpoints leading to Airbase 101 at Diori Hamani International Airport in the Capital of Niamey which is home to roughly 2,000 U.S, French and Allied Military Personnel; though the real question is are they there against or with Western Forces.

They're Nigerian (ECOWAS member) so they're the cannon fodder of the US & France.

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JohninMK wrote:OSINTdefender
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Soldiers and Special Forces from the Nigerien Armed Forces have been Deployed at Checkpoints leading to Airbase 101 at Diori Hamani International Airport in the Capital of Niamey which is home to roughly 2,000 U.S, French and Allied Military Personnel; though the real question is are they there against or with Western Forces.

They're Nigerian (ECOWAS member) so they're the cannon fodder of the US & France.

The tweet says Nigerien, not Nigerian.

And they're under the orders of the new military government, so they're against the US and French military personnel. Who they've kindly asked to leave and gave a 10-day deadline to do so until.

Yeah, it is a bit trick isn't it... Nigerien people from Niger, and Nigerian people from Nigeria right next door.

Bear in mind that the new leaders were trained by the US and that this could be a US takeover, basically booting the French out. BUT the new leadership today said that it was turning to Russia for military and economic assistance.

Definite egg on face of the French and the ECOWAS group who argued so strongly against it at the start.


DD Geopolitics
@DD_Geopolitics
The United Nations has announced that the government that took power in Niger after ousting the president is now recognized as the legitimate government of Niger.

The UN Credentials Committee recognized Niger's ruling military government as the sole representative of the Nigerien authorities to all UN bodies.

A Russian 'man in the street' telling it how it is.

A Russian 'man in the street' telling it how it is.

Amusing... that comment is really funny... I don't think anyone in the west thought Russians were cool and it was just Putin that was the problem.

Putin does not compete at the olympics so the ban on all Russian and Belarus athletes was not directed at Putin but the Russian and Belarus people... all the sanctions have been designed to make all Russians suffer by destroying their economy and their commercial links to the rest of the world (ie the west).

They wanted Putin overthrown, but they were happy to do that by making all Russians suffer like it was the 1990s all over again for them.

Nobody was pretending they like Russians... ammo and money and weapons and support for the Ukraine was intended to kill young Russian conscripts.

Ukrainians do exist, like Israelis exist, but they don't have to exist... go back 200 years and neither existed as Ukranians and Israelis... Ukrainians as a status only existed since the early 1990s... before that it was a region of Russia.

No nationality has any right to exist... ask any Yugoslavian or Czechoslovakian... or East German.

France is a joke pretending to be a relevant powerbroker in the region. Its an anomaly anyone takes them seriously at all. Fucking pansies who strut around around like they own the place when they need Uncle Sam to do the heavy lifting for their shit.

Garry/George

I put this in the wrong thread. Can you please move posts 111 and 113 to the Ukraine thread? Thanks.

The inevitable, Russia in and the French then US out.

Spreading like a rash across Central Africa.

S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y
@Sprinterfactory
Niger terminated its military cooperation agreement with the United States.

This was announced by a representative of the local military administration. The decision was made following a visit to the country by an American delegation led by US Undersecretary of State for Africa Molly Fee and the commander of US armed forces in Africa, General Michael Langley.

The representative of Niger said that the Americans disregarded diplomatic protocol by not informing about the details of the visit or the composition of the delegation. According to him, the Americans denied the sovereign Niger the free right to choose its own partners and, moreover, made threats against the authorities and people of Niger.

Therefore, Niger breaks the military agreement with the United States and henceforth considers the presence of its military in the country illegal. The Americans have two military bases and more than a thousand soldiers in Niger.

Following the example of neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger has already expelled Europeans from the country and turned to Russia for support.


Niger's military junta, through spokesman Colonel Amadou Abdramane, announced the immediate cancellation of a military agreement with the UnitedStates.



This agreement permitted US military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to be present on Nigerien territory. This decision affects the US drone base situated in northern Niger.



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@JacquesAhouans4

"US military personnel and civilian staff of the Department of Defense" Understand: The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. You should thank the Niger authorities for not calling them by what they actually are! That would have exposed the identities of the CIA operatives in Niger.

The Niger authorities had valid reasons to revoke the agreement to set up the military base. Here are just two:

1. The agreement was never debated in the Niger National Assembly to set up the base in 2012.

2. The refusal of the military base to share intelligence gathered about the terrorists, to enable the Niger military attack these criminals.

3. The refusal of the American Government to pay dues for using Niger airspace, running into millions of dollars that could have been used to build schools and hospitals in the country.

Funny how often western countries make agreements and then don't deliver on their end of the bargain... of the agreement seems to benefit them and no one else...

I did wonder what had brought this to a head as the US seemed to be staying. They just pushed their luck to far

African Hub
@AfricanHub_
The USA recently sent a USA delegation including some USA military official to Niger behind Niger's military leadership's Back and not followed the protocol needed before getting into Niger.

The USA delegation condemned Niger military leadership and demanded that they step down.

Niger's military leadership led by General Tiani were shocked and did not believe what was happening. They wondered who are these people who without invitation into our country have all the audacity to tell us what to do to the extent of bullying us in our own country.

Niger took this as the biggest Disrespect ever.

Niger immediately terminated all the agreement with the USA military that have ever been signed since the beginning of human existence and demanded the USA sent delegation together with all other USA military personnel to leave the country (Niger) immediately.

Russian troops tied up in the SMO??? No way.

The new African reality starts arriving in Niger as a start. Official Russia, not Wagner.

US to withdraw from Niger after security pact fails in strategic victory for Russia

Since the coup, Niger’s new leaders have pursued closer ties with Russia, mirroring neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso, where Russian military forces have established a presence.

Just days after the arrival of Russian military equipment and advisers in the country, thousands of protesters gathered in the Nigerien capital, Niamey, last week to demand the withdrawal of American forces.

According to Russian reports, the newly arrived personnel were part of Russia’s Africa Corps, a new paramilitary group established to replace the Wagner Group

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/us-withdrawal-niger-security-pact-russia

More info at link

@amuse
@amuse
WAR: Niger’s Russian-backed military junta has agreed to release 1,000 US troops it was effectively holding hostage in exchange for Biden’s agreement to turn over our $100M airbase to Niger and Russian forces. The US media will barely mention this humiliation today.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1781999920104210688

Russian troops tied up in the SMO??? No way.

Russian troops in Ukraine and in Syria and in Africa helping people who need help.

US to withdraw from Niger after security pact fails in strategic victory for Russia

It is a strategic victory for Niger... I am sure Russia was happy to help them out.

WAR: Niger’s Russian-backed military junta has agreed to release 1,000 US troops it was effectively holding hostage in exchange for Biden’s agreement to turn over our $100M airbase to Niger and Russian forces. The US media will barely mention this humiliation today.

The west blames Russia but really it is their own arrogance and hubris that has led to Niger kicking them out.

Russia didn't do this... France and the US did this because the treated the locals like sht in their own country.

Russia is going to treat the locals with respect and both parties are going to benefit from peace and stability and eventually they will start elections and get democracy back to working properly and building their country and developing and growing like it should have done under the peace loving democracy loving western countries that used to occupy it like colonial overlords...

American troops in Niger have declared “increased readiness” due to the deployment of Russian specialists at the same base as them, the African country’s security forces reported.

The Russians were stationed at the 101st Air Base next to the Americans. About 150 Italian soldiers and about 100 Germans also serve there.

According to the source, the Germans and Italians behave calmly, while the Americans “constantly wear helmets and body armor and behave extremely nervously.”

- ISZ reports