Tag: AFRICOM
Vestido con uniforme militar verde y gorra azul de guarnición, el coronel mayor Amadou Abdramane, portavoz de la junta gobernante de Níger, se dirigió a la televisión local el mes pasado para criticar a Estados Unidos y romper la prolongada asociación militar entre ambos países.
Since a cadre of U.S.-trained officers joined a junta that overthrew Niger’s democratically elected president in late July, more than 1,000 U.S. troops have been largely confined to their Nigerien outposts, including America’s largest drone base in the region, Air Base 201 in Agadez.
African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying “non” to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs.
The impoverished West African state of Niger is the latest flashpoint in the struggle by the imperialist powers for a redivision of the world.
