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The latest coup d'état in Niger has sparked regional and international tensions, as it poses a threat to local stability and could become the token of other political actors. For an in-depth look at the subject, we interviewed Kambale Musavuli, an analyst at the Congo-Kinshasa research center. teleSUR

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00:00 So France, French interest in the Sahel region,
00:04 French interest in Mali, in Burkina Faso, in Niger,
00:07 is mineral resources, natural resources.
00:10 But the people of the region are saying,
00:13 this is not the Berlin Conference anymore.
00:15 We are in 2023.
00:17 African people must control their land.
00:19 They must control their resources.
00:21 They must exploit those resources
00:23 for the benefit of the masses.
00:26 And you can see that in the protest.
00:28 There was a coup in Niger, a military coup.
00:32 The leaders have spoken.
00:34 The people could have said, we're not in support of the coup.
00:38 But why are thousands of people in the streets?
00:41 So the people of West Africa
00:44 are very clear about imperialism.
00:46 They are very clear about French imperialism.
00:49 And they're saying no to imperialism.
00:51 And they are saying yes to a multipolar world.
00:54 This is why you're seeing the Russian flag in this protest,
00:58 where African people, where Nigerian people are saying
01:02 that we do not want to stay connected to the West.
01:06 We want to have partners who look at us with dignity,
01:10 who treat us with respect,
01:11 to build a new world that we want to see.

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