Gravitated more towards countries like russia and china rather than western ones like france or even the us. First let me introduce our guests. Tunda usazuwa, african team member at black alliance for peace joins us from atlanta. Also joining us is fidel amake whos an International Relations and security analyst who joined us from akra. Welcome to you both. Uh, ill first start with you uh. Tunda usa, im hoping im pronouncing that correctly, looking at the announcement that france has uh made, which has been in the works for for a little bit of time here, even though they resisted it, but uh, they announced that theyre going to begin withdrawing this troops from niger, the key word there of course being uh begin, we dont know whether its going to be extended, but its a start, but overall if it happens, does that mean that frances engagement with niger is over . Yes, well we. That france has around 1,500 troops in niger uh as well as uh multiple military bases uh bases that are used righ
Countries like russia and china rather than western ones like france or even the us. First let me introduce our guests. Tunda usa, african team member of black alliance for peace joins us from atlanta. Also joining us is fidel amake whos in International Relations and security analyst with joined us from akra. Welcome to you both. Ill first start with you, tunda. Usazua, im hoping im pronouncing that correctly, looking at the announcement that france has uh made, which has been in the works for for a little bit of time here, even though they resisted it, but uh, they announced that theyre going to begin withdrawing this troops from niger, the key word there of course being uh begin, we dont know whether its going to be extended, but its a start, but overall if it happens, does that mean that frances engagements with niger is over . Yes, well we know that france has has around 1,500 troops in niger uh as well as uh multiple military bases uh bases that are used right by france uh to con
France has announced that it would begin withdrawing its troops from niger this swing after having a fallout with the military that took over power. Does this mean that this would be the end of frances involvement in niger, a former colony . What about other countries that were former colonies of france . Well in this edition of the spotlight we look at those two issues and look at how niger along with other african countries have gravitated more towards countries like russia and china rather than western ones like france or even the us. First let me into. Afrikan team member black alliance for peace joins us from atlanta. Also joining us is fidel amasu was an International Relations and security analyst who joined us from akrack. Welcome to you both. Ill first start with you. Tunda usa, im hoping im pronouncing that correctly. Looking at the announcement that france has uh. Made, which has been in the works for for a little bit of time here, even though they resisted it, but uh, they
Countries like russia and china rather than western ones like france or even the us. First let me introduce our guests. Tunda usa, african team member of black alliance for peace joins us from atlanta. Also joining us is fidel amake whos in International Relations and security analyts joined us from akra. Welcome to you both. Ill first start with you, tunda uh. Usazwa, im hoping im pronouncing that correctly, looking at the announcement that france has uh made, which has been in the works for for a little bit of time here, even though they resisted it, uh, but uh, they announced that theyre going to begin withdrawing this troops from niger, the key word there of course being uh, begin, we dont know whether its going to be extended, but its a start, but overall if it happens, does that mean that francess en engagements with niger is over . Yes, well, we know that france has has around 1,500 troops in niger uh as well as uh multiple military bases uh bases that are used right by france u
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