The ‘terrifying’ crackdown on mining companies in Africa’s coup belt
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Military regimes in the Sahel have turned to tactics including arrests to assert control over critical mineral supplies

I’m not informed enough about any of these countries to have a stance on them (other than good on them for kicking out imperialists) but this all reads like, erm-this-you .

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Despite their “increasingly hardline approach”, said Mucahid Durmaz, analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, the cash-strapped military governments were eyeing miners as a “lucrative” source of extra revenue rather than trying to force them to “pack up and leave”.

    I think balance of payments will be an issue. They still use their “former” colonizers currency, CFA Franc.