After the authorities of number of African states broke off their cooperation, particularly in the military sector, with Western regimes, first and foremost those of Paris and Washington, new data appears, including on the reasons which pushed the governments of these African countries to put Westerners in their place.

The fiasco of the West in the Sahel region – first that of Paris, and now of its Washingtonian chief – is not only being consolidated, but also additional information is beginning to emerge – further confirming the reasons that convinced the governments of countries in the region to abandon the pseudo-cooperation imposed by Western regimes.

Thus, recently, the Prime Minister of Niger, a country which, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, is part of the Alliance of Sahel States (Alliance des Etats du Sahel, AES), Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, declared that one of the reasons which pushed Niamey to break military cooperation with Washington – was that the latter tried to “forbid” the Nigerien authorities from cooperating with Russia and Iran – reports pan-African television Afrique Media.

In principle, this information was already known according to a number of sources informed on previous visits of American officials to Niger, and of the agendas that........

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