Niger

Niger revokes law with CNSP leader on poster
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France, Now the United States, Suspended from Military Operations in Niger

March 21, 2024 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe In the latest wave of anti-imperialist actions sweeping various West African states in the Sahel region, the government in Niger has nullified a security agreement with the United States. Following the […]
Alliance of Sahel States meeting
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French-led Military Alliance Collapses in West Africa

December 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A series of military coups in West Africa since 2020 have taken on an anti-French character in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. All three of these former French colonies constituted a significant […]
Burkina Faso Minister of State Bassolma Bazie at UNGA
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Several African States at the United Nations Condemned Western Imperialism

October 1, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the third week of September in New York City, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 78th Session featured heads-of-state and leading officials from more than 190 countries and territories around the […]
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France Recalls Diplomats from Niger Ahead of Troop Withdrawal

September 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Emmanuel Macron for several weeks has falsely claimed that the French ambassador in Niamey was being held hostage by the newly installed government established by the National Council for the Safeguarding […]
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From Niger to Haiti to Cop City, Defeat the War Against African People

September 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Black Alliance for Peace In the desperate bid for the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination to hold onto the unipolar world, the war on Africans globally intensifies. This reactionary legacy of Western colonialism is proving […]
West African military leaders sign Liptako-Gourma Charter
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Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso Sign Military Pact

September 24, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the July 26 seizure of power by the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP) in Niger, threats of direct military intervention have been pervasive from France and the […]
People rally in support of Niger coup - “Down with France - Long live Putin” reads the sign
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Ten Myths, Counter-narratives or Contradictions Around the Western Neo Colonialist War in Niger

September 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright As is observed in all imperial onslaughts against the Global South, their wars are increasingly fought at the level of disinformation and manufactured narratives to create a climate of smoke and mirrors […]
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The Neo Cons’ Frankenstein Syndrome in Niger

September 10, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein published in 1819, was an English abolitionist born to a radical feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, and an anarchist political philosopher, William Godwin. Not only did she advocate the […]
Nigerian workers mobilize
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Nigerian Trade Unions Stage Two-day Strike amid Economic Crisis

September 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Nigeria is Africa’s most populous state and is listed as having the largest economy on the continent with huge deposits of oil, natural gas and other strategic resources. In possession of these […]
French colonial troops surrender to Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu, 1954. Niger is facing off against same French colonialism today
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In Niger … Echoes of “The Quiet American”

September 8, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright Almost seventy years ago, on November 20th, 1953, the French colonial army entrenched itself in the village of Dien Bien Phu in the North of Vietnam. It was encircled by the valiant […]