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Climate action is breaking out all over

Only months after forcing its former colonizer France to withdraw its troops, Niger, West Africa’s largest country, has said the presence of US troops is illegal.

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A deep dive into the many sharpening contradictions in de-colonized Africa

Let us stop celebrating coups aimed at furthering the interests of a few military elites as acts of anti-imperialist resistance.

The 4-week old turmoil in the West African state of Niger is taking a curious turn that no longer allows a binary vision of “neo-colonialism and imperialism” versus “national liberation”.

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The people of Niger, facing a desperate situation, are threatened with the withdrawal of vital humanitarian aid from the country in response to the coup, a move tantamount to a punitive measure and essentially exploiting aid as leverage.