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Six countries in West and Central Africa have had coups in the last few years, with Gabon and Niger the most recent. Is there a pattern emerging? And where do France and Russia fit in? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains.
00:50 - A wave of coups-where are they happening?
01:30 - What happened in Gabon?
01:55 - The power struggle in Niger
02:30 - What are the common coup themes?
02:35 - Governments not delivering
03:15 - The security problem
04:20 - Anti-French sentiment is growing in the region
06:00 - What role has France played in the Sahel?
07:40 - Why Russia is gaining influence
08:15 - Where does the Wagner group fit in?
This episode features:
Dino Mahtani, Independent Analyst on African Affairs
Martin Ewi, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies |Pretoria
Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, Senior Sahel Analyst, International Crisis Group
Ovigwe Eguegu, Policy Analyst, Development Reimagined
Adama Gaye, Political Analyst
Michael Amoah, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics
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@aljazeeraenglish 9 месяцев назад

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@MetaView7 9 месяцев назад

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@smithnjumbe1325 9 месяцев назад

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@unibks4382 9 месяцев назад

Rumble in the Jungle Bongo. Liberté, égalité, fraternité for oppressed Africans. Vietnam and the Quiet American déjà vu. Parlez-vous francais Bwana?

@Sipho_Thenjwayo 9 месяцев назад

You failed to mention the CFA franc

@cringedude3427 9 месяцев назад

What about the coup of the current prince of Qatar 🇶🇦 on his father and his father on his grandfather 😂 Qatar 🇶🇦 is the most hypocritical country in the world. Shame on you

@T.image79 9 месяцев назад

IT IS NOT “an idea that France treats Africans unequally”. IT IS FACT FRANCE HAS BEEN GETTING URANIUM FOR 0.80cents per kilogram when it’s Market price IS $200 per kilogram. THIS IS HOW FRANCE TREATS AFRICAN COUNTRIES. IT IS HORRIFIC!!

@NjieZiphougarth 9 месяцев назад

Spot on but is also the puppet leaders and corruption politicians

@paulteske4735 9 месяцев назад

Idk why this hasn’t been mentioned more in the media. There’s a huge paper written back in 2010 showing France (AREVA) paid about $3.4m but mined about $430m in uranium. It’s been going on for decades. … And Wagner is doing exactly the same thing.

@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745 9 месяцев назад

0.80 cents per what? Is it per kilo?

@T.image79 9 месяцев назад

@@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745 Yes. Per kilogram

@ahmedlusajogibbonsmwaikamb6099 9 месяцев назад

Per Kilo! Plus they have 1st refusal over every contract, every mineral resource plus 50% of their Treasury has to be stored in France!

@briancasa1054 9 месяцев назад

Obviously the people of Africa is seeing other countries develop and looking at their own conditions! They are tired of being taken advantage of! You don’t need a degree to understand

@polishnorwegianandspanish9145 9 месяцев назад

They are still being taken advantage of but by new countries (Russia, China) and new people.

@singduong5513 9 месяцев назад

@@polishnorwegianandspanish9145what has the west done for Africa?

@RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv 9 месяцев назад

@@singduong5513 Your corrupt Governmets are responsible. Its all over Africa,from the bottom to the top. I would suggest ministers from the west,,who are Africans from orgines. And some nasty black journalist from the west. The should be able to stop corruption in Africa.

@dt9233 9 месяцев назад

Well said! Africa is sick and tired and all colonizers that have caused destabilization needs to go France kicked out first and others to follow as they continue to cleanup Africa from those that truly aren't there to help Africa... They just want to take the resources.

@l2thadeusable 9 месяцев назад

@@singduong5513looting and looting and looting

@RedHorseman66 9 месяцев назад

There was an Arab spring, this is the African Summer. Still waiting on Asia fall, and European winter.

@llamaboss1434 9 месяцев назад

No, we live before a global fall, and by the end of the century it will be a full on winter. There will be no prosperity for Arabs or Africans at all, they will never have cheap food or water, and so, industrialization will falter and then revert in short order. Most will be in full on deindustrialization by the end of the . Europe will get dragged down by migration until it turns full on fascist. South America and Asia will continue to tread water and slowly climb in the case of specific metropoles. But mostly the old world will burn, as humanity will come to terms with the reality of cultures and people being unequal and never having equal outcomes.

@handle-changed 9 месяцев назад

positive thoughts contribute to positive outcome they say, quantum physics discovery.@@llamaboss1434

@themac9677 9 месяцев назад

@@llamaboss1434 Or western nations will have their flow of trillions of dollars of natural resources and cheap labor from the rest of the world cut off. The new BRICS economic alliance will bolster the currencies of its members while de-dollarizing the modern world removing colonial nations as the stand alone world power. With this power gone, individuals of European colonial descent will lose their priveldge and have to adjust to a world that isn't centered around them

@katimboallan4605 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting

@belis35 9 месяцев назад

😂last time I checked, Arab spring didn’t bring anything to the people.

@tajeddinebadry8481 9 месяцев назад

You can fool some people all the time, you can fool all people for some time, but you can't fool all people all the time.

@ziadalaoui2461 9 месяцев назад

Nailed it!

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

Russia is quite good in fooling people, look at the Russians, they think they are free and quite rich, which is a complete lie

@One.Zero.One101 9 месяцев назад

I get why they wanted France out, but seeing people waiving Russian flags is so naive. The Ruskies want the same resources France did.

@ziadalaoui2461 9 месяцев назад

The US is too good of an ally of France so they see Russia is the best replacement @@One.Zero.One101

@KevinAdams26 9 месяцев назад

It seems you can fool Africans to think, despite literally ALL evidence to the contrary, that Russia, CHina, and their own internal corrupt politicians and military will help them. Sounds reasonable and sane...

@darnellrobeson4761 9 месяцев назад

The youth are realizing that their countries are rich in resources. Yet the citizens are poor. Makes ZERO sense. They are tired of it. Those countries should be thriving economically.

@handle-changed 9 месяцев назад

just sitting on resources doesn't make you rich.

@darnellrobeson4761 9 месяцев назад

@@handle-changed it should

@jwt1035 9 месяцев назад

@@darnellrobeson4761It’s only a resource if you know how to use it. To the ordinary African it’s just dirt. Wealth happens when you have the knowledge and technical ability to turn dirt into something useful.

@darnellrobeson4761 9 месяцев назад

@@jwt1035 thats very tru. However not every African is ordinary or average. There are educated and resourceful Africans. Thats why they keep having these coups to remove the ones in power with that old thinking.

@Lamin_G 9 месяцев назад

*Better topic:* How does Africa effectively deal with the *ORIGINAL contagion* on the continent -- "Western" imperialism, while cleansing itself of corrupt, self-serving "leaders"?

@dialogswithgod7128 9 месяцев назад

The day American pulled out from Afghan a plan number #2 was ready for execution. Most don't know it but France is just now realizing how costly the word "ALLIES" means. It means you are a vasal state of America, it means you are a slave of America. It also means if you don't toe the American line you will vanish like many before you. Emanual Macro mentioning autonomy for EU from American policy 3 months ago has resulted in this. France thought that they could get ECOWAS (their proxy) to crush the Niger, Sudan coup well America had other plans - now Gabon. Many more coups to go in coming months and years. If Macro talks more independence in future interviews well there are other coups waiting. Leave it to the CIA they have 70 year experience in this domain in every country. Just ask the Germans what happened to their cheap Russian gas pipeline - another so called Allie. You are allies NOT the boss so stay within your space decided by Neocons in the US. Who is Putin really fighting? Its the Neocons in America not Ukraine. God help the French as the CIA won't. To be enemies with America is dangerous but to be an Allie/friend with America is 100% FETAL. Its that simple.

@Lamin_G 9 месяцев назад

@@dialogswithgod7128 I get it that the U.S. commands loyalty or else...You have to understand, however, that the coups in "former" French colonies started _before_ Macron publicly called for the "autonomy" of the European Union. Truth be told, anti-Western sentiment had been brewing for a while; it is only now the world media is taking note because of the recent coups in close succession.

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

certainly not by letting Russia take over the control over the corrupt African dictators and the natural resources of the African countries

@optimusprime5794 9 месяцев назад

@@goeast12blah blah blah blah blah.... ain't nobody got time to read all that essay you wrote but you actually just proved your ignorance. Do you know that all those inventions you mentioned wouldn't be possible without the resources being stolen from Africa by the West?

@williamsbrenda7767 9 месяцев назад

@goeast12 all the resources come from us without Africa Europe will be third world

@Lamin_G 9 месяцев назад

Al Jazeera: *Gabon* may have experienced a coup, but don't mistake it for "one of the poorest countries" of the world because of that; it is an *upper-middle-income nation! Get your facts straight! 🙂

@IamGodSon 9 месяцев назад

A third of the people live in abject poverty. That wealth is held by cronies of the regime and France.

@real32487 9 месяцев назад

@banpotandblm As of 2021- GDP= 20.22 billion USD "The country is the fifth largest oil producing nation in Africa, which has helped drive its strong growth in the later 20th century. The oil sector now accounts for 50% of GDP and 80% of exports." The only "bananas" around here are making up certain brain cells. More liked mushy brains or mashed potatoes drowning in milk.

@MrRedsjack 9 месяцев назад

Gabon average salary is over 500$ a month. Similar to Russia. Now with the coup it will probably get worse as they will kick out the french companies and cause mass unemployment.

@Lamin_G 9 месяцев назад

@@MrRedsjack Your fortune-telling about the "future" is immaterial to the fact contained in the OP.

@Lamin_G 9 месяцев назад

@banpotandblm You've gone bananas.

@DarkStar_48 9 месяцев назад

The idea that France is operating in the public interest is more than a bit simplistic.

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

the idea that Russia is operating in the interest of the African people is absurd

@darthjakenjanje1877 9 месяцев назад

@@RainerMichellego educate yourself before spouting out garbage

@chomasensi 9 месяцев назад

The only interest french parasite has is to keep it's colonies despicably poor while they milk dry the resources of the host body/countries.

@Kuksha51 9 месяцев назад

@@RainerMichelleThe people of Africa will decide for themselves who to deal with: with the West, which takes 90% of the profits and leaves 10% for Africa, or with Russia, which takes 10% of the profits and leaves 90% for Africa.

@acgrizzle7530 9 месяцев назад

Nobody is framing it that way. African countries want to be free to trade with whoever they want and with fair trade deals. If Russia is offering better trade terms than the West, then why wouldnt you want to trade with them? The people who keep framing this is as Africa have to choose their oppressor's, are the ones who are making absurd statements. @@RainerMichelle

@khav99 9 месяцев назад

I find it interesting when they report that exports generate revenue for Niger's governments, and France provides aide in the region, omitting key factors such as the ridiculously low price France imposed for uranium, 50% of the countries money is in French banks and they have to borrow their own money with interest, just two of the many injustices imposed on many countries in the continent. Seriously these so called corporate news outlets reek of disingenuity, they all need to go find their conscience provided it is even possible.

@ShiyghanNyuysiysi 9 месяцев назад

It's 80%can you imagine

@omzy8700 9 месяцев назад

That’s what France do ,they will give you a little money through “aid” by they will take most of your resources were you could earn alot of more money if you own your own resources.

@tany2191 9 месяцев назад

its so nefarious how they downplay the injustices happening. Very upsetting.

@clawsoon 9 месяцев назад

And France has been happy to intervene to keep corrupt governments in place. Uh, I mean to "preserve democracy" and "fight terrorism".

@stonebriarlights 9 месяцев назад

All the while asking these stupid Access Hollywood questions like they giving viewers a balanced reportage of facts. Why do we have to learn from the comment section that Frances uses the Africans money as a hedge to keep their own banks stable, what would Niger be like if that 50% (or 80%) of their money was in their own banks? How much more worth would that give them in trade & having a seat at the table? I'm truly sick of news media, the comments know more than they do. So fake & deliberately sloppy with this endless one-sided reporting.

@evag4535 9 месяцев назад

Because Africa is tired of been the giver, then made out to look like the beggar and needy….

@handle-changed 9 месяцев назад

ego will not get you far. cooperation will.

@Metratch 9 месяцев назад

You mean western ego? absolutely imperialistic ego never gets you anywhere, cooperating with africa and treating them fairly will indeed get things done@@handle-changed

@36G 9 месяцев назад

@@handle-changedwe are cooperating. With Russia and China

@indoman8887 9 месяцев назад

I used to work in Africa (Ghana and Mali) and in truth, nothing will change because corrupt and incompetent civilian governments will be replaced by corrupt and incompetent military governments. In the meantime, the prospects of the common people of the country will not improve. This has been the way it is in far too many parts of Africa for the last 65 years, when they first started to gain their independence. There are certainly stand out success stories, with Ghana headling the list.

@curiositykillsthecat 9 месяцев назад

Maybe you / we all should be a little bit understanding as African countries have been independent for only 60 yrs...It took more time to the any western countries to get where they are today. Africa needs help in a good will way, guidance, trade... Africa needs to be treated as a commercial partner. West company should win if Africa is winning. And corruption has to be addressed as an obstacle to foreign direct investment.

@ahlimbuhap5097 9 месяцев назад

Ex-European colonies in S.E. Asia have done so much better, Singapore being the most outstanding.

@curiositykillsthecat 9 месяцев назад

@@ahlimbuhap5097 true ..but look at Singapore history ( it was a dictatorship plus less interference from the outside world). After African independence, those countries were still bound by outrageous contracts with its former masters, plenty coups and assassinations and massive corruption to get resources for almost free all, wars fuelled and organized by the same. Looking at a map and a timeline doesn't give you the full story.

@HughJass-jv2lt 9 месяцев назад

@@curiositykillsthecat yep. he forgot to acknowledge the obvious: Western Europe supports Corrupt African Leaders, and Undermines Honest African Leaders. this is essential for their NEO COLONIALISM to thrive 🔥🔥🔥

@MrManny075 9 месяцев назад

They can't be corrupted if the one who deals with them is honest and deals with them honestly, Evil intention creates corruption

@drattler1946 9 месяцев назад

Africa is Africa Leave them alone that means Russia and China also

@henryhansack1737 9 месяцев назад

No it doesn't. Russia is perfectly fine. We want Russia. europe and China gotta go. Take the arabs who hate blacks with them.

@bootngammaoh3612 9 месяцев назад

China and Russia are not imposing themselves on us.

@bangoutmedia6361 9 месяцев назад

Russia just forgave 23 bullion in debt from niger no other european country even mentioned the possibility bc they want maintain control of Africa

@SibusisoMaseko1 9 месяцев назад

Exactly....

@NP1066 9 месяцев назад

China can help

@davidr4523 9 месяцев назад

As a French expatriate living in Niger, the issue is that the military generals were not reaping enough revenue from the raw mineral exports. With France issues in controlling their own African citizens, the French decided against taking any military intervention. The result for France will be the same after these coups but instead of paying off corrupt politicians, they will now pay off corrupt military leaders.

@franklincassidy4927 9 месяцев назад

You are right? All of them are the same, both the military leaders and the political leaders. We need complete revolution of mindset and trust worthy individual to man this country

@One.Zero.One101 9 месяцев назад

Yep, if they're thinking these military dictators wouldn't be corrupt, they're gonna be disappointed in a couple of years.

@bonganimkhwanazi2081 9 месяцев назад

We'll see... 😊 If they are truly corrupt they won't last long either

@davidr4523 9 месяцев назад

@@bonganimkhwanazi2081 actually military leaders last longer because they pay higher wages to the military to keep the already existing loyalty strong.

@gabrielgodoi4565 9 месяцев назад

This is how you approach the situation. The "people" being fed up is just an excuse for these coups. In reality new leaders that strive to stay in power will now crush the opposition being more corrupt and ruthless than the ones that came before them. These African people on the streets are actually doomed.

@nelsonkalangula9973 9 месяцев назад

Africa will rise to power, if not in our era, it shall be in the next... A seat at the table is now in sight for Africa...

@36G 9 месяцев назад

If it is for the next then you must start educating them right now

@ArendJanV 9 месяцев назад

Compared to the developed countries, Africans are practically still in the Stone Age. It simply hasn’t the cultural capital to come close to the West in a generation like Japan and South Korea did.

@vitust407 9 месяцев назад

And why shouldn't we believe the French are not behind that in France to protect their hegemony. Unfortunately, Gabon appears not to be free as the Gabonese citizens might want to believe.

@PeacePeace-xw8wc 9 месяцев назад

There is no aid from france to Africa period.

@Tom6567my 9 месяцев назад

More like rebates😂

@JohnMwangi-jv3pp 9 месяцев назад

We don't need it .ur kids gona need more than us once we cut exploitation

@ladislaugomes7447 9 месяцев назад

Facts

@drmarkflies 9 месяцев назад

Wonderfully balanced and objective coverage. As always, succinct coverage of complex issues. Well done Sandra!

@brendanroberts4866 9 месяцев назад

It was patronizing generalizations not near the truth which would be more racist.

@Baronnax 9 месяцев назад

It kinda underplays the chokehold France still has over the Sahel. They have full control over the currencies in these states, and have even helped overthrow governments critical of this control.

@brendanroberts4866 8 месяцев назад

@@Baronnax franc cfa has actually benefitted currency stability, look at Nigeria as a example or zimbabwe where the locals 'run' the show.

@carlmanvers5009 8 месяцев назад

If it was 'wonderfully balanced and objective' then where are comments from the French Government? Not even token ones.

@drmarkflies 8 месяцев назад

@@carlmanvers5009 my opinion. You are entitled to yours.

@jizza7173 9 месяцев назад

Thanks Sandy for the wider all encompassing perspective. Lot of research and effort at play.

@Sipho_Thenjwayo 9 месяцев назад

She forgets to mention the CFA franc

@allo5170 9 месяцев назад

@@Sipho_ThenjwayoExactly controlling the money of independent countries

@Travelvision2020 9 месяцев назад

Why not ask the people

@simplyballing1592 9 месяцев назад

As long as all this leads to the future prosperity of all those African nations who have experienced coups recently

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

when Russia is taking over power it always leads to the population being impoverished, ask all of Russia's former colonies and look at them now, after 30 years of EU and NATO membership, start with Poland and the Baltic countries

@ZetaMoolah 9 месяцев назад

…spoilers…it just leads to a new generation of exploiters….

@ivannapolsk9421 9 месяцев назад

@@ZetaMoolah Ironic that the founding fathers of the US were revolutionaries who couped their Colonial British Rulers and the French themselves were big on revolutions.

@bit7389 9 месяцев назад

@@ivannapolsk9421I am afraid you cannot really compare that. It's not like the founding fathers of the US were part of the indigenious population. That was more like one coloniser getting rid of another coloniser. And the immediate consequences of the French Revolution weren't all that beneficiary to anyone really. Dark times in France and then there was still Napoleon to come. Revolutions do tend to have their downsides.

@mikeantonin7580 8 месяцев назад

I can completely assure you that will not be the case. It's not like this is the first time something like this has happened, the new leadership will be just as greedy, corrupt and incompetent.

@Aloh-od3ef 9 месяцев назад

I’m sure it’s nothing to do with Russia and the presents of wagers in those countries 😉

@Essie314x 9 месяцев назад

yeah lets just blame russia and not europe's neocolonialism 🤡

@hybridepigenes 9 месяцев назад

Nicely dissected. Thank you.

@khalidshah5048 9 месяцев назад

Don't make it complicated!! ..Thieves must be kicked out..and punished...very simple .....

@gilet102 9 месяцев назад

Black people are slowly realizing their potential. This is the people who are tired of living in poverty while outside countries make banks off their resources.

@juanmiguelreyesguerr 9 месяцев назад

I’m África you can break into a person’s house, tie them up, steal their belongings, and if you yell “Down with France!”, the victim will love you.😅 So gullible!

@jamesmaina7004 9 месяцев назад

French colonial approach and policy was a failure right from the partition of Africa,,,,the policy of assimilation was dead on arrival,,,,why didn't the British fail with anglo Africa??

@cashmayes2343 9 месяцев назад

The spark of revolution!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@maliksy7746 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely 💯

@rajiroqeeb4203 9 месяцев назад

Nice one!! You always give your best to simplify different concepts on each episode….thank you so much for that….However, I will like to ask…. What is your take on Saudi-israeli normalization….do you have anything for us regarding that?

@tieshamcleod6488 9 месяцев назад

Love your show needs to do it everyday or week through the topics you speak about its very interesting

@specialagro3978 9 месяцев назад

I’ve always love this program since it started, I mean the “start here” and of course the young lady handling it has been doing a great job of it. You’re outstanding.

@anthonymanderson7671 9 месяцев назад

Really interesting analysis.

@knae9216 9 месяцев назад

wow, what a comprehensive analysis!

@mobo204 9 месяцев назад

Why can't an African deliver this documentary? 😫 I believe it will go well, if someone like us was delivering this,be it White ,Arab or black

@ArendJanV 9 месяцев назад

No one is stopping you to start a RU-vid channel.

@zaharaddeenkaramilawal4994 9 месяцев назад

This report has omitted many factors that contributed to anti-French sentiments in West Africa. Even after these countries gained their independence, France maintained control over their economies by introducing a common currency. Their funds must be deposited in a French bank, and they are only allowed to access 50% of their funds annually. Additionally, they are required to submit financial reports detailing how they spend their money. France's exploitation of the region has resulted in it becoming one of the poorest in the world

@johnc3525 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, but it seems the CFA franc provides stability to the region. It's not all good but it's not all bad either. "The CFA franc monetary system is designed to guarantee the franc currency in international markets, while simultaneously preventing overdraft and inflation in CFA member countries. Between the early 1950s and the mid-1980s, CFA franc countries had stronger real GDP growth and lower inflation than other sub-Saharan African countries. For example, within the past fifty years, Côte d’Ivoire experienced an average inflation rate of 6%- a much lower rate than its neighbor Ghana, which averaged 29% inflation."

@seyidsahutoglu9687 9 месяцев назад

I don’t understand why this channel lightens up how France is AFFECTING AFRICA. I hate it. The situation in Africa must be taken seriously and addressed truthfully!

@1984mschanel 9 месяцев назад

As an American, it's hilarious watching these journalists tie themselves in knots trying to explain this. Talking about "coups". B***h this is a revolution!

@Eyeofthestorm812 9 месяцев назад

Although complex, your last point that France plunders and benefits is the key. France brought in these terrorists when they overthrew Libya. People know that . If not for Africa, France would be poor.

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

this is a silly comment, France has invested a lot of money in Africa to get business and the economy going, but corrupt governments are stealing most of the money, it does not reach the people

@horstholztrager4965 9 месяцев назад

A very good and to the point analysis of what is going on there. Brief and to the point.

@maliksy7746 9 месяцев назад

She missed the facts

@benndanny12 9 месяцев назад

Brilliant, thanks.

@innocentodenigbo7284 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting.

@jrodriguez2794 9 месяцев назад

LET THEM BE FREE

@nyandapatrick2459 9 месяцев назад

Wether you paint Russia as a negative or positive partner for us in Africa we see Russia different from what those in the west see. Let the west continue in their old Ideology. We in Africa already know what the west has been doing and still continue to do. We shall build our relationship within our interest in the condinent of Africa that benefit our population.

@ASAPHMARK 8 месяцев назад

Kindly speak for yourself

@snapeasy4331 9 месяцев назад

Well explained 👏

@CSSPreparationPlace 8 месяцев назад

Amazing analysis.

@Cmz764 9 месяцев назад

I wonder if these coups lead to another conflicts among themselves like in sudan.

@RainerMichelle 9 месяцев назад

no, these coups will lead to Putin making more money he desperately needs for his war in Ukraine

@gedenironald8635 9 месяцев назад

It’s not a coup in Sudan, it’s a civil war, those mixed race children of Saudi descents are fighting for power

@Arcturus.Raptor 9 месяцев назад

Next is Nigeria

@danoneall4013 9 месяцев назад

Egypt needs a good coup Their economy is dying

@Junior-zf7yy 9 месяцев назад

God forbid

@originalsaffari 9 месяцев назад

You didn't explicitly say that France is still ripping them off massively. Essentially that is the reason. The aid is a joke!

@ibrahim__alsayed 9 месяцев назад

nice episode

@shiva.chennai 9 месяцев назад

Really very informative channel explaining each and everything clearly without bias. I hope your work of shed light on suppressed innocent people to counter west influence in Africa. I will make Africa a rich continent oneday. It will happen very soon.

@ambo9569 9 месяцев назад

France has Pacific colonies like New Caledonia & French Polynesian. I truly hope my Pacific people find their strength to take independence like our African brothers are doing. Keep it up 👍🏽

@ZZ-oc2eb 9 месяцев назад

Yup and they have island nations part of Africa and South America (French Guinea)

@keshi5541 9 месяцев назад

Polynesians funniest people I know. Always a great time with them around. I hope for the best for you guys.

@j3j326 9 месяцев назад

This is a very interesting topic

@mqarlytv 9 месяцев назад

I like ur style. U just give it how it is. Real news. Big up ur dam self YAARD style.

@strechemall 9 месяцев назад

Francophone Spring

@nafeekarim2780 9 месяцев назад

❤You Sandra Gathmaan

@mduduzigama5534 9 месяцев назад

Concise 👌👌👌

@hannaelfar1816 9 месяцев назад

It’s about time African countries start to prosper from their own resources

@ArendJanV 9 месяцев назад

I predict that these countries will be worse of in 10 years.

@Houthiandtheblowfish 9 месяцев назад

france treasury bank central cfa franc

@MuhammadHussain-kz5nq 9 месяцев назад

It's a fact whenever there is military coup there is disaster. We can see this trend almost in every poor or 3rd world country.

@victorcano1289 9 месяцев назад

It is not "coups in Africa" but coups in "Francophone Africa", those six countries had one problem in common, called France.

@youme1414 9 месяцев назад

We must learn to say no to coups! I am a Nigerian and I am against coup in any form.

@ladislaugomes7447 9 месяцев назад

Even when it's to free yourself?

@amanuelkibrom2072 9 месяцев назад

your president is a clown that puppet

@ucheodilioraodera6680 9 месяцев назад

Coming to Nigeria soon

@groberts5337 9 месяцев назад

Elect good leaders not like the puppet in your country

@miguelcasiano9532 9 месяцев назад

@@ladislaugomes7447America is not free. Free is just a state of mind. We always have our lives dictated for us. It is happening all over the world.

@ThiernoIBah 9 месяцев назад

Lies, u should fire this evil reporter

@axumitedessalegn3549 9 месяцев назад

LOL! It's always the others

@Travelvision2020 9 месяцев назад

For real never ask the people there

@worldwide1856743 9 месяцев назад

@@axumitedessalegn3549west Africans simply don't want to see themselves become like Canadian aboriginal people's or American aboriginals or Australian aboriginal people's. It's simple as that. The others do have an agenda and a dark one at that. Open your eyes. Unless you have a counter argument 🙄

@MyDogRescuer 9 месяцев назад

These African countries now have a balls to rise up because they now have an option, that are China and Russia. The West May hide behind “liberal morality”, but that morality isn’t really aligned with the culture of a lot of countries, including these African countries. The West “aids” to Africa never lifted these people out of poverty. They need to be treated to be an equal, in terms of business. They need to get mutually beneficial agreements with their raw materials, unfortunately the West never gave them that, & people in the west May hate it, but Russia and China provides a better deal.

@andrewlim9345 8 месяцев назад

Good and balanced analysis of the recent coups in Sahel: poverty, corruption, and great power competition between France and Russia.

@axumitedessalegn3549 9 месяцев назад

So basically, childlike mentality is the cause.

@Travelvision2020 9 месяцев назад

Childlike 😂😂no exploitive parasite have to go

@axumitedessalegn3549 9 месяцев назад

@@Travelvision2020 which itself is child like mentality

@Travelvision2020 9 месяцев назад

@@axumitedessalegn3549 i don't think I understand wut a childlike mentality means

@keithlewis7820 9 месяцев назад

All respect for whatever reason people think about France the bottom line is France have to leave Africa which is the whole truth and nothing but the truth

@aintnohaironit4666 9 месяцев назад

France is Playing Both SIDES. "United...You Stand. Divided...Get Conquered"

@eagleeye9277 9 месяцев назад

russian propaganda.

@bangoutmedia6361 9 месяцев назад

Russia never participated in the scramble for africa like all the other european countries they became a super power internally so africans can deal with russia without a tainted history

@Yirayol 9 месяцев назад

"Whether more countries will follow?" LMAO Prigozhin was so dedicated and inspired by these coupes that he decided to bring a part of Africa to our homeland

@annjames4663 9 месяцев назад

Camerron is next

@tameneworku5996 9 месяцев назад

I am not asking more countries to follow, but which country is next one.

@39pinkmoon 9 месяцев назад

Both insightful and smart. The post Cold War and age of terror seem almost quaint in comparison to the multiple strands ( climate change, overpopulation , radical technological advancement and the retreat of democracy) that the world has to contend with.

@lazarouschewe3535 9 месяцев назад

From the narration France is part of the equation but not the only problem.

@Danfaculty 9 месяцев назад

More countries should follow pls

@tebogoletsoko1342 9 месяцев назад

Mayibuye iAfrika. Ilizwe lethu. A luta continua; Vitoria e certa!

@VincitOmniaVeritas7 8 месяцев назад

The enunciation of this presenter is great

@irvin099 8 месяцев назад

- What’s behind the wave of coups in Africa? - Countries are tired of feeding their national wealth to France.

@johnodonoghue651 9 месяцев назад

Why is there music in the background?

@a_son_of_light 2 месяца назад

In other words "the common thread of all these coups in West Africa and South Africa, basically is..." the same as in the United States. And the common thread in all countries is Government Corruption. Economic stagnation and insecurity are the symptoms/consequences of the corruption.

@trollthetruthand5458 5 месяцев назад

China and Russia know what the resources of Africa can do because France flex so much about what they have, the thing is Africa is blessed and these resources will never run out for them but as you can see it will for the west.

@frankbarron1907 9 месяцев назад

If Africa wants to become prosperous the people of Africa need to unite and former either and African Super State, or 2 or 3 smaller - yet still large enough to hold their own against the West and China - African Federations. If Japan (with almost zero natural resources to speak of) can become a global economic power, then the sky is the limit for Africa if she plays her cards correctly.

@justayoutuber1906 8 месяцев назад

She has a beautiful voice.

@asahmed1980 7 месяцев назад

2:54. Unfortunate. The people do 99% of the work to move the nation forward and in return they can't afford decent shelter. But as is said: 'Doing the same thing twice and expecting different results is insanity I'm suspicious of those behind coups but I hope I'm wrong here. I hope China and Russia operating in Africa isn't the same as Western European nations in Africa. That there is fair trade and the wealth is spread raise quality of life. No more exploitation.

@rcgayle9863 3 месяца назад

With America imploding, the Caribbean leaving British hegemony, coups in Africa, proof Africans on the continent and outside in the diaspora are able to survive and do better than the west in a pandemic, and a group of young people sick and tired of being hated everywhere in the western world, enough is enough. Praying that the elders wake up and protect these new young leaders and kick out all cia, mi5, and be watchful of seeds of discord to keep folks fighting against each other.

@andrewbaker7719 9 месяцев назад

No mention of the financial flow of $ billions through the use of "offshore banking", "shell companies" etc. that creates this artificial poverty. Until this system is ended, it will make little difference if there is a military or civilian government and, poverty will remain a fact for the citizens of these countries while a very small percentage of people (civilian or military) will continue to be extremely wealthy.

@draugrdraugr 9 месяцев назад

Not gonna mention that the French still control the currency that these countries use?

@paulszymanski2513 9 месяцев назад

Season for coup. Like sands through the hourglass so are coups in Africa.

@_chipin 8 месяцев назад

😍 Sandra 😍

@onlinesavant 9 месяцев назад

My only objections to what these nations are doing is their gravitating toward relationships with China and Russia. They don't need either of those countries to prosper. They run the risk of just replacement one colonial power, with another.

@ArendJanV 9 месяцев назад

Turning to China is such dumb move. They’ll just swap France for an even more ruthless oppressor.

@HamzaAyub-bn3qo 9 месяцев назад

Madam can you make a video on india Canada relation

@BMLKABD19 9 месяцев назад

I do recognize that there only so much you can put in a 10 minutes video, but It is a mistake to simply look at it from a Russia v France although at a defense level it is more fitting. The other factors at play is simply the fact that in the ground the push towards newfound western values that are simply at stark odds with a more traditional values. Even if we discount the fact that most of these countries are Muslim majority, African societies are de facto conservative. These conversations are being had on a bedding of decades or centuries of exploitation. The obvious solution is cut the cord or maybe peel off these leaches off of our backs.

@Bigdogspyke 9 месяцев назад

Interesting y’all never report anything about the Al Thani family……..