Niger coup casts doubt on Canada’s African strategy of spending millions on military training, development
For a decade, Canada has pursued a quiet campaign to stabilize the fragile West African country of Niger, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on development and security projects to defend an impoverished democracy surrounded by autocratic regimes and Islamist militias.
Today, those expensive efforts are in jeopardy. A coup in Niger has deposed the Western-backed president, Mohamed Bazoum. This has left the country in the hands of military leaders who seem to have abandoned the democratic gospel the Canadians were preaching.
Another Trudeau Triumph. Seems to me that a lot of white people are very protective of their “very important jobs” which involve traipsing about Africa raining cash on the locals to no evident benefit.
