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After India, I have been amused by the debate about whether or not Nigeria should be more than a guest again at the next G-20 meeting in Rio, Brazil. If South Africa is a member, why not Nigeria? How do you offer Africa’s largest economy only a complimentary ticket every time to such an important |
Again, a bizarre joke in Niger speaks French, by Azu Ishiekwene. Not only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa
Deposed President Bazoum, elected two years ago, steered Niger back to warm relations with France, one of the main grouses of the soldiers.
Not only are military coups becoming frighteningly frequent in West and Central Africa, virtually all of them, it appears, also speak French. For the fifth time in three years in West Africa, soldiers struck again in Niger, Nigeria’s Northern neighbour, where former President Muhammadu Buhari had teasingly longed for refuge from Nigeria’s hostile press. With the recent turn of events, however, it appears that Buhari’s speed train to Maradi, Niger’s ancient city, may have to find another destination.
For Ecowas the coup is a huge embarrassment. It’s fair to say the snake of Niger’s problem has its hand buried in the womb of the unfinished problems of former president Mamadou Tanja’s decades-old confrontation with France.