Why Many Nigeriens Want Russia in and the West Out

The waving of Russian flags among Nigerien coup supporters is a reminder that much of Africa is not pro-Western, write Collin Meisel and Adam Szymanski-Burgos

Collin Meisel is the associate director of geopolitical analysis at the University of Denver’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures, a geopolitics and modeling expert at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, and a nonresident fellow at the Stimson Center.

Adam Szymanski-Burgos is a research associate at the University of Denver’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures.ast week’s coup in Niger sent shockwaves across not only Africa's Sahel region, but the international community at large. Niger had been the last pro-Western holdout in a region known as Africa's “,” fueling concerns the military takeover could destabilize the region and hurt longstanding counterterrorism efforts there.

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