Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2017
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Tue, May 15, 2017
Part I, part II, part III, part IV
In approaching the end of the African Hybrid War research, the series will now take to addressing the strategic vulnerabilities inherent in Niger, a country which is triply important for its uranium reserves, geographic position just north of Niger, and the emerging French-Chinese competition there. These three factors combine in such a way as to make this landlocked and atrociously impoverished country a lot more important than the unaware reader might immediately assume, thus broadly explaining the reason why it’s included in this continental study. The research will accordingly begin by highlighting some of the most relevant characteristics about Niger in order to comprehensively introduce the country to the reader. Afterwards, it’ll examine the French and Chinese sectors of interest before delving into the various asymmetrical threats that imperial Nigerien stability. Once that’s done, the last part of the research will speak on the significance of coups in the country’s short history and forecast why it’s more than likely that this will remain a recurring event in the coming decades...................
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