Chad And Senegal Are Teaming Up To Expel France From The Sahel By Andrew Korybko France and the US are expected to apply a three-pronged policy for pushing back against this. Thursday was an historic day for African geopolitics since Chad… Read More ›
Why Are Some Nigerian Protesters Waving Russian Flags? By Andrew Korybko The argument can cogently be made that this isn’t proof of Russian meddling. Nigeria arrested more than 90 protesters last week who were waving Russian flags while demonstrating against the rising… Read More ›
Nigeria Is To Blame For The Sahelian Confederation’s Withdrawal From ECOWAS By Andrew Korybko In hindsight, it was inevitable that the charade of Nigeria’s regional leadership would end, but nobody could have predicted the dramatic way in which it happened. The planned… Read More ›
Which Coastal State Will Provide The Sahelian Confederation With Reliable Access To The Sea? By Andrew Korybko Nigeria can always return to blackmailing that bloc on whatever pretext, while Mauritania lacks the infrastructure to facilitate this, and Morocco is unlikely to… Read More ›
ECOWAS’ Sanctions Starve Average Nigeriens But The US Only Cares About Bazoum’s Health By Andrew Korybko America never misses a chance to exploit the optics of a humanitarian crisis, yet this time it’s conspicuously silent about the latest one that it… Read More ›
Victoria Nuland Revealed Some Interesting Details About Her Discussions In Niger By Andrew Korybko The top takeaways are that: the US is making a public effort of dubious sincerity to show the world that it doesn’t want a regional war; her… Read More ›
Niger’s Ousted Leader Initially Promised To Fight Terrorists But Ultimately Allied With Them By Andrew Korybko Without any exaggeration despite how sensational it sounds, Bazoum literally allied with Al Qaeda and ISIS’ regional affiliates according to The Economist, and he even… Read More ›
None Of Nigeria’s Objective National Interests Are Served By Invading Niger By Andrew Korybko Although it’s everyone’s right to think whatever they want about the merits of Niger’s regime change, there are no plausible grounds for considering it a threat to… Read More ›
The Mainstream Media’s New Narrative Is That Niger Is Now A Global Epicenter Of Terrorism By Andrew Korybko It’s full-blown fake news to claim that Niger is now a global epicentre of terrorism, but the MSM is expected to maximally amplify… Read More ›
Al Jazeera And Politico Shed Light On The Real Reasons Why Nigeria Might Invade Niger By Andrew Korybko What these two outlets’ pieces on this subject show is that newly inaugurated Nigerian President Tinubu might invade Niger out of desperation to… Read More ›
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