What’s behind the Niger coup?
The Briefing Room
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The French Authority in Niger Is Getting Worse
I'm very frightened because the situation is getting worse and worse. I cannot move freely from my home to another place in the capital. The fact that Russian flags are raised by people is not really something that makes French fear. But yesterday or two days before we have a Mali delegation that came in Niger, and according to information I got, some members of Wagner are on the delegation. So, I think that the French government got this information and they know that unfortunately it seems that the Janta is going to sign a kind of agreement with Wagner's group.
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