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Just being......real. True China has learnt that isolationism is not a good long term political strategy...choose your partners Yes....but unlike the West's exploitation which was a Genocidal Devastation of land and people - the Chinese are also providing Real and Immediate benefits. Yes unity is good and right, regrettably we are not there yet...as a result we must choose partners that are not all Africans That's not the whole story....Cuba is very instrumental in the liberation of many African Countries. Just being White European does not automatically makes one an enemy of Black Africans

Two of the better articles on the Niger military overthow of its president are, 'Niger coup: Why some people want Russia in and France out ', by Tchima Illa Issoufou & Beverly Ochieng, BBC World Service, Niamey & Nairobi 'China's oil and uranium business in Niger', by Andrew Hayley Putin sending the French running from Niger, squeezes European Union and France which rely on Niger's uranium. China already dominates Niger's oil, and makes China the main Niger oil and uranium player.