2023-09-11 08:51:34
“Asphyxiate”, “suffocate”, “isolate”… To describe the intention of the international and regional communities when they took economic sanctions once morest the handful of soldiers who a overthrew the power in place in Niger at the end of July, there is no shortage of words. All converge towards one and the same idea: by straining the country’s revenues, by endangering its population and its economy in the broad sense, the quasi-embargo must force the putschists to return the keys to the president elected, Mohamed Bazoum.
An economic weapon, therefore, used in recent history notably once morest Iran and, more recently, Russia. And which has not had the expected results, the regimes in place and the blatant violations of international law having so far not stopped. Moreover, as in any situation of oppression – without prejudging its legitimacy – the more the temps passe,
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