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Pro putin slogans. what is behind that amount of support and, really, maybe even a desire for russia to get involved in niger? i mean, i think we ve got to be cautious. to some extent, that might have been choreographed in some way. there is a degree of stage management because, obviously, russian flags don t come from nowhere. but i do think there is a genuine push from people to move towards russia. the idea is that people are frustrated about what they see as the french and the failure of the french, the fact that the french were the colonial power and that they never really left and that, ultimately, there has been an insurgency on a number of fronts in niger and the western push has not stopped it. so, there ve been islamist insurgents in the south east who are allied to islamic state and in the south west, who have come from mali and they are allied to al-qaeda. ....
Elected president mohamed bazoum is fast approaching. west african bloc ecowas has threatened to use military force if it isn t met. but political leaders in nigeria, west africa s most powerful nation, are urging their government to pursue diplomatic rather than military options. niger s prime minister has been in paris saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protesters outside the nigerian embassy. he has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. earlier, i spoke with alexis akwagyiram, managing editor at the news website semafor africa. thank you for being here. there is a lot of talk about. first, i want to start with this seven day deadline given by this group of west african leaders to reinstate the democratic government there in niger. that deadline is set to expire in really a matter of hours now, coming up on sunday. what do you expect will happen when that deadline expires? so i strongly expect that when the deadline expires, ....
But the idea is that people are frustrated about what they see as the french, and the failure of the french, the fact that the french were the colonial power and that they never really left. and that ultimately, there has been an insurgency on a number of fronts in niger, and the western push has not stopped it. so there have been islamist insurgents in the south east who are allied to islamic state, and in the south west, who have come from mali and are allied to al-qaeda. and thousands of people have either been killed orforced to flee their homes. now, what these people have seen is that in neighbouring mali, the military rulers there have pulled in the russians and they feel that it s been more effective, because mali pushed out french troops, they pushed out the un peacekeepers, and said what they want is a fighting force of more aggressive troops that ....
The fact many women s players are not playing only in their home countries, but around the world, be it in the united states or europe. and i think it also demonstrates that there are no real huge underdogs. it feels like anyone could beat anyone. you saw one of the strongest teams ever, germany, get eliminated in the group stage. canada, the reigning olympic gold medallists, they were eliminated as well. so i think it s a huge thing for african football and world football as a whole to see all these teams develop and get much better as the years go on. i think it willjust get even better with more teams evolving and obviously coming in to disrupt the party of the reigning powers that have always dominated in women s football. sports reporter roberto rojas, thank you so much, as always. it should be a lot of fun, and we will get ready for that match between the us and sweden. thanks for coming on the programme. my pleasure, thank you. that us and sweden match taking ....
Leaders in niger to reinstate elected president mohamed bazoum is fast approaching. west african bloc ecowas has threatened to use military force if it isn t met. but political leaders in nigeria, west africa s most powerful nation, are urging their government to pursue diplomatic rather than military options. niger s prime minister has been in paris saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the nigerien embassy. he has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. translation: sure, they make a lot of noise, but i can - assure you they don t represent national opinion in the country in question. with france, we had very good cooperation on the economic front and we also had very good cooperation on the military front an operation which has, moreover, borne fruit in the fight against terrorists in the sahel. earlier, i spoke with alexis akwagyiram, managing editor at the news website semafor africa. ....