PREVIEW: #AFRICA: Conversation with Caleb Weiss of FDD in Africa re the surge of Russian Africa Corps units in West Africa, and especially in Niger, where the US is told by the junta to depart. More details tonight.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
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1911 Nigeria
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.0 | Conversation with my colleague Caleb Weiss in Africa |
| 0:35.1 | reporting for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy and Bridgeway Foundation |
| 0:39.9 | about Niger, a country that is in turmoil, the junta throughout the democratically elected |
| 0:47.7 | president, the U.S. maintained two bases there. |
| 0:51.5 | One was a drone base. No longer they've been obliged to leave by |
| 0:56.0 | the new junta and Caleb describes the fact that Russia, the Africa Corps |
| 1:01.6 | formerly known as the Wagner Group now the Africa Corps, formerly known as the Wagner Group, now the Africa Corps directly under the Ministry of Defense, |
| 1:07.0 | moved in to the same base before the Americans had left. |
| 1:12.0 | Russia replacing America in West Africa in |
| 1:15.0 | West Africa in Niger, Burkina Faso, in Mali, |
| 1:18.0 | Russia's Africa Corps looking to make money, looking for gold, looking for |
| 1:23.0 | resources and the US knows it and cannot stop it. |
| 1:28.0 | The US is there to fight the jihadist. |
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