Anti-US and anti-French sentiments are on the rise in Africa’s Sahel region. Just weeks after Niger ordered the US troops to leave, Chad is questioning the presence of American soldiers in its country. Four of the five G5 Sahel countries, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad, are reconfiguring their relationships with international economic and military powers as they purposefully shake off Western colonial and imperialist chains.
These three former French colonies have become increasingly disenchanted with the continuing extraction and exportation of their natural resources by France. These relationships have seen low yield beneficiation to the poverty-racked economies of these African nations.
Of the three nations, uranium-rich Niger has been of particular interest to
