Tag: Niger
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.
Not long ago, President Joe Biden vowed that the U.S. would “counter democratic backsliding by imposing costs for coups” in Africa. But three weeks after a military mutiny in Africa involving U.S.-trained officers, the Pentagon refuses to call the takeover in Niger a coup d’état.
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.
Before a military coup removed Gabon’s hopelessly corrupt President, Ali Bongo, from office, he was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The US war on Libya which destabilized the region may not have succeeded without him. By […]
