Pro-Russia, anti-France coup leaders in Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan, Niger and Gabon are all giving a military escort to "sham democracy" in their respective countries.
Nigerien tailor Yahaya Oumarou carefully ran cuts of white, blue and red fabric under his sewing machine, assembling them into the three horizontal bands of Russia's flag.
leaders, they ve seen this very alarming run of military takeovers in that region, often involving many of their own members for the last three years. if this coup succeeds, it will be the sixth successful coup since 2020. so the leaders really want to try and stop, draw a red line under these coups. the difficulty is in niger, there certainly on the street seems to be a suggestion there s at least some support for this coup. the coup has i think tapped into latent anti-france you know, france was formerly the power in niger. it s a difficult situation for them. so the u.s. now is not officially calling it a coup. and apparently doing that,