Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Troops from Niger ousted the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, last week. One of the coup leaders had previously received training from the U.S. government, becoming the 11th coup in the region led by U.S.-trained officers. This week on Intercepted, Nick Turse, investigative journalist and contributing writer with The Intercept, joins Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain to discuss the unfolding events in Niger and the Sahel region. Turse outlines how Africa has seen elevated conflict and instability as the U.S. has increased its military involvement on the continent over the last two decades.

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0:00.0	This is Intercepted.
0:30.0	Welcome to Intercepted. I'm Jeremy Scayhill.
0:37.0	And I'm Murtazo Hussein.
0:40.0	The Sahel region of Africa has been racked by instability in recent years, including
0:44.0	extremist violence, climate change impacts, and a series of military coups that have deposed
0:49.6	democratic governments in six countries. The latest coup took place last week in Niger,
0:55.6	where U.S. trained military officers moved to the polls and elected leaders sent the
0:59.8	country into chaos.
1:01.6	We're joined now by Nick Terce. He's an investigative journalist and a contributing
1:05.1	writer for the Intercept. Nick has been reporting on the African continent and the U.S. influence
1:10.4	in various African nations for many years. He was in Niger on a reporting trip earlier
1:16.6	this year and has been reporting on that country for a sustained period of time. Nick Terce,
1:22.0	you've been on this program many times and we thank you once again for being with us
1:25.4	here on Intercepted. Thanks so much for having me on.
1:28.1	Nick, I want to start with just basically a TikTok of what happened in Niger, who the
1:33.3	coup leaders are, and kind of the events that led us to this moment. Take us through
1:38.1	the timeline and what exactly went down. Yeah, just this past week, there was a junta
1:45.0	that rose up in Niger, began with the presidential guard kidnapping the president basically,
1:51.1	medium hostage holding him for some time, and while the president was being held hostage
1:56.7	about the 10 high ranking Nigerian officers peered on state television to tell the country
2:04.7	that they had opposed the president, that the regime had so bungled the counterterrorist
2:10.1	response over the last several years that they were taking charge. It's still shaking
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