2023-08-16 18:39:07
On the night of July 25 to 26, 2023, General Abdourahmane Tchani, then commander of the presidential guard, was alerted that a measure to release prisoners of war, which he had opposed, was about to be released. be signed by President Mouhamed Bazoum. He immediately went to the Palace where he reiterated his disagreement with what appeared to him to be an act of treason against the country’s fighting forces.
Bazoum persisted, the general had him arrested immediately, before sealing off the area around the seat of the presidency. It was off, the next morning, for this crisis which, until this day, has caused a lot of ink and saliva to flow.
The other detachments of the army, which, in the early hours of the morning, had opposed the overthrow of the “democratically elected president”, rallied General Tchani as soon as he showed them the decree that Bazoum was stubborn to sign.
The missed gesture of the deposed president appeared, in fact, in the eyes of all the units, as an act of treason. Freeing jihadist leaders, in this context where terrorism is bleeding the Sahel, is at the very least incomprehensible.
Another curiosity in this Sahelian shambles: France, which has positioned around 1,500 men in this immense no-man’s land, and the United States, which has more than 1,000, watch, impassively, at the atrocities of hordes of barbarian terrorists who scour the hamlets, plunder, burn, butcher…
Former colonizing power of Niger, France, which surrounds with its armed men the uranium mines to secure its nuclear industry, is the very one which asked Bazoum to perform the act of clemency which cost him his chair. ! Does it fight terrorism or does it join forces with it to orchestrate what Sylvie Baipo-Temon, Central African Minister of Foreign Affairs, has called “the organization of chaos”?
The modus operandi is well established: setting fire to the neighbour’s house, sending men there disguised as firefighters, letting the arsonists do their thing, freeing those of them who are caught, taking advantage of the chaos of the fire to seize the family jewels… An armed robbery, in short! Niger, targeted since 1960, is the poorest and most energy-deficit country in the world, at a time when its uranium fuels the nuclear industry which lights up France and brings in billions of euros in the sale of electricity. !
Height of injustice: it is Areva, now Orano, French nuclear standard bearer, which extracts Niger’s uranium, exploits part of it, sells the other on the international market to… return to Niger the crumbs which take its place departure.
In May 2023, France, forced to develop its nuclear sector following the energy crisis caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war, signed a contract with the regime of Mouhamed Bazoum that Nigerien civil society had demanded in vain and which will be denounced by the newly ruling junta.
What happened in Niamey is therefore not a stab at the democracy of a general that the now ex-president was preparing to dismiss. It is a healthy rectification of the excesses of a “democratically elected president” who had harvested the strategic and economic interests of his people to obtain the support of external pyromaniac and predatory powers!
There is no doubt that the new team in power in Niamey, which began by denouncing the military cooperation agreements with France, will demand the departure of the French troops stationed on Niger soil.
After being driven out of the Central African Republic, Mali and Burkina Faso, France will have to clear the floor in Niger. In the new diplomatic deal in the Sahel, it will be replaced, here too, by… Russia!
From Paris to Washington, we are choking with rage in the face of this geopolitical explosion. The West which, as revealed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, a brilliant geopolitical analyst, works to neutralize China and weaken Russia, sees its economic survival threatened by the gold currency being created by the Brics led by Beijing and its strategic positions in Africa torn off by Moscow.
What is being played in Niger is a game of chess whose stakes go beyond ECOWAS. This sub-regional organization lacks credibility commensurate with the complexity of the crisis. What a cruel symbol to see Alassane Ouattara, author in 2020 of a bloody constitutional coup to capture Côte d’Ivoire beyond two terms, demanding that a rain of bombs fall on a junta having, without bloodshed, put an end to the power of a president in the contested election, in search of legitimacy, who was selling off the interests of his country to foreign powers in return for their support!
Because the terminology no longer deceives anyone: one is a “democratically elected president”, supported by “the international community” if and only if one serves the interests of the powerful who arrogate to themselves the right to decide what is good and what is bad for other peoples. And who, because it suits them, found nothing to complain about when Mahamat Kaka Déby Itno trampled on all democratic protocol to seize power the day after the death of his father, Idriss Déby Itno.
Club of potentates exploited by foreign interests, ECOWAS will not have the military means of its ambition to reinstall Bazoum in power. The United States left the hard line of France, faced with the hostility to the option of force expressed by Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Chad, Algeria, but also by public opinion African intellectual.
However, through the extreme sanctions it has adopted, ECOWAS will drain Niger of what remains of its blood. The population, innocent, already tested, will be finished by the shortage, the famine, the death… And the wheel of the history will continue to turn… The case of Niger is an acute symptom of the contemporary African evil.
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