This is John Batcher, a conversation with Ronan Wordsworth of geopolitical futures about Niger.

Niger has gone from democracy to a military junta in these last months and has now moved to ask to order, to direct the US to leave its

drone base based in Niger fighting against the jihadists of Central and Western Africa.

That drone base will leave presently.

The largest story is the grouping of the G5 across Africa from the on the shore of the Sahel, Mali Burkina Faso Niger, Chad, all the way to Sudan.

Oh, these nations are all showing clear indication they've fallen under the Russian

camp.

What does that mean?

Security and some exporting of uranium out of Niger is possible.

But the largest story Ronan introduces us to, a plan to build a railroad from the Mediterranean port of Tripoli into Chad,

Niger, reaching towards Mali and Burkina Faso, reaching toward the sedan and Central

African Republic. He describes it very

carefully and what it means in the road ahead, what the terrain is like, who's going to build it. All of this is new information out of

Moscow looking to increase their influence in the Sael stretching across Africa from the coast of the Atlantic to the

coast of the Red Sea. Here's Ronan Wordsworth, geopolitical futures,

on a possible future for Africa and a railroad.

So this was a report just came out last week

from Russian sources.

Basically, I saw the map there that they're proposing to build a new railway from the coast of Libya,

basically near Tripoli, down south into Indonesia, and then split in Asia where it goes westwards towards

Mali, Burkina Faso, and then east and southeast towards Sudan, Chad, and Central African Republic. East and

Soutian, Chad and Central African Republic, it seems like this is a good way of logistically connecting a lot of these

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