Gun-shy: why Niger’s coup stands, for now
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a military response—the ultimate deterrent in a coup-prone region—seems small and waning. Russia’s rouble has become one of the world’s worst-performing currencies, and there are not many good options to rescue it (09:40). And a tribute to an American pioneer of consumer-product safety (16:22).
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| 0:00.0 | Finance doesn't need to be disrupted. |
| 0:03.0 | It means people who see the potential for progress, |
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| 0:11.0 | so that finance can move at the speed of business. |
| 0:15.0 | This is what our blockchain solutions deliver for financial institutions, |
| 0:19.0 | enterprises and central banks around the world. |
| 0:22.0 | Progress is a choice, and it's one you can make right now. |
| 0:26.0 | Ripple, crypto means business. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Aura Agunbi, and I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:42.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events she'd been in your world. |
| 0:49.0 | Russia's rubour has been hit badly by its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:53.0 | In fact, the central bank is so worried about the currency's future |
| 0:57.0 | that it has set out on an emergency mission to save it. |
| 1:01.0 | But how much will this affect Putin's ability to wage war? |
| 1:05.0 | And TV antennas and flame throwing lighters, |
| 1:09.0 | tricycle platforms and gas cooker rings. |
| 1:12.0 | These are a few of the dangerous things |
| 1:14.0 | that Richard Simpson kept out of American's hands in the 1970s. |
| 1:19.0 | Our obituaries editor remembers America's first consumer product safety chief. |
| 1:28.0 | But first... |
| 1:36.0 | In Niger, the democratically elected president Muhammad Basoum |
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