Niger

Well they did decide, in 2021 when they elected the government.

They'd have gotten to decide again in 2 1/2 years when the next elections were due had the coup not happened.

Are you generally against democracy and elections ?

ECOWAS Countries

So what Russia doing there

If their interests in China aren't humanitarian then obviously they don't give a sh!t about Africans, but they have also been stung badly with infrastructure investments.

The French have historical links to Africa where Russian links tend to involve flooding countries which AK-47s , RPGs and tanks, which has led to countless internal conflicts and civil wars under the guise of ending colonialism to aid the spread of communism, or as Putin likes to say special military operations to protect their interests in mines and minerals

Well if you're board of talking about Russia's meddling in Africa perhaps you could answer my question from before.

Are you generally against democracy and elections ?;or is there any particular reason you're in favour of a Junta overruling an electorate in their democratically elected government ?

And Russia are in Niger to look after the interests of the Nigerien people.

İt's not that funny; Uranium sells at circa 60 dollars/lb, this double the price in 2019. With the world consuming about 150,000 kilos a year, it's not a huge market, and being the 7th largest supplier doesn't indicate any real wealth.

There are a huge amount of people in the world who would disagree with you on that.

In fact, much of the global south (since we're on a thread about an African nation) has been heavily critical of the west/nato for it's interference in Ukraine and contributing to the escalation of this conflict. But the west doesn't really care what anyone else thinks.

Not to derail a thread, but who actually escalated the conflict? Enabling a country to prevent itself being destroyed is not "Escalating a conflict".

Just like who escalated the Niger Coup? the democratically elected government supported by countries actually in the region or the Wagner supported Junta?

All this talk "but but but the west did nothing to stop a coup in country x" is just to deflect form the fact that in the region the democratically elected government are recognised as the rightful government of Niger. Its only Wagner backed brutal Mali regime support Niger. "But but but the west..."