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Nigeria and the Nigerien Coup: The Allegory of the Hunch-Backed Cripple (1)

Niamey, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) General Moussa Salaou Barmou, chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Niger and a member of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), ordered his subordinates on Saturday to be in a maximum alert.

A line of thousands of trucks stretching back 25 km (15 miles), including those with food, humanitarian aid and industrial materials has been stuck at the Malanville border crossing in northern Benin to the Niger Republic for more than 20 days.  This was seen in a documentary posted by Channels TV on its verified X (formerly Twitter) page which was monitored by SaharaReporters. 

Once upon a time, a cripple with a hunchback boasted about leading his people to war. He was warned to keep off because of his visible infirmity. He was asked how he would escape when the war broke out. He said it did not matter. He believed that since he was the king of his |

In any case, what’s democracy? In his book Enemies of Society, Paul Johnson argues that the true essence of democracy is “the ability to remove a government without violence, to punish political failure by votes”. But if that’s impossible because of rigged elections and tenure elongation, as common in West Africa, is that democracy?