What do we have here?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-there-a-genuine-anti-imperialist-peoples-movement-in-west-africa-nigers-military-government-is-supported-by-the-pentagon/5829840
GlobalResearch is a Quebec based news agency/outlet, considered centrist and far from the establishment on the palette. This article above also shows they are suspicious and concerned about the US governmental manipulation happening in the background.
They claim that all these coupists in the Sahel are closely cooperating with the US government the least, and are used to push French influence out of Africa again the news outlet is Quebecois.. I do agree that the US has the motivation to order her "allies" back to leg, I wrote this on /kc/ already. And the ties of all these African officers also suspicious.
However in previous Syria threads in relation to Mali I noted what I found, that in these African countries the strata of society where political individuals can come from is so narrow that no "new" faces can appear from the nowhere, all of 'em will have their past, with its ties to this or that, or to each other.
But then, during this Niger coup, those Russian flags popped up so suddenly and readily. Russia seems like a good culprit to blame, all Westerners can eat it all up quick. Both those who hates Russia for Ukraine, and those who cheer for Russia and Wagner. If actually the US is in the background, directing the spotlight to Russia is simple and smart.

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Indeed. I wanted to note that too.
Gabon is further down south, right on the Euqator, is not a Sahelan country, but also part of Francafrique ofc.
In 2019 they did a failed coup attempt.