Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s ousted president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc, according to an analyst. The request came during a visit by a coup leader, Gen. Salifou Mody, to neighboring Mali, where he made contact with someone from Wagner, Wassim Nasr, a journalist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center, told The Associated Press.
The situation in Niger remained fluid on Thursday, a day after members of the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum at the presidential palace in Niamey. FRANCE 24 spoke with Danielle Resnick, a political scientist specialising in sub-Saharan Africa at the Brookings Institution, about how a military coup could affect Niger’s relations with regional and Western allies, and what it might mean for Russian influence on the African continent. Niger’s army command on Thursday declared i
katherine, as we know, france prides itself on making no distinction between its citizens on the basis of religion or ethnicity. but bite seem in reality that is not the case. do you feel that this is some sort of reckoning for france, what s going on right now? well, things are certainly coming to a head, but there s a sense in which we ve been here before. every 15, 20 years or so, there seems to be an anger which boils over. and some of the people that i ve been speaking to in the suburbs of france, including where this particular cycle of violence was first sparked by the shooting of this young man, people say they feel that nothing has really changed, that they are not included in mainstream french society, that they are the victims of police brutality, that the police treat them roughly with impunity. france does not collect data on demographics by ethnicity because the state wants to be seen as color blind, but a lot
i m anna coren live from hong kong. ahead on cnn newsroom, a fifth night of violence in france as anger boils over following the death of a teenager killed by police. we ll go to paris for a live report. new evidence that donald trump pressured officials to overturn the 2020 u.s. presidential election. what a source is telling us about trump s call to the governor of arizona. travelers are hitting the roads and skies in the u.s. on this fourth of july holiday weekend. but extreme weather is throwing a hitch in some of those trips. we begin in france where protesters of have rallied in force for a fifth straight night to condemn the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy. overnight, authorities detained more than 700 demonstrators, some of whom set fires and