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The coup in Niger threatens Western governments’ interests. The ramifications are regional and international. In the short-term, military cooperation with the US, France, and Canada has been suspended. In the long-term, European energy supplies may be impacted by Nigerien efforts to reassert national control over their resources, a move that would influence Europe’s wider global policies.

Like Mali a few months ago, Burkina Faso, which has also just experienced a military putsch, seems in turn determined to turn away from France.