from thefreeonline on 9th Aug 2023 by thefreeonline and AlJazeera
US and UN humanitarian aid is a grain of sand in the desert they created. With just 1% of US military spending Africa could have a free health and welfare system- and that money would be just invented cash from Dollar hegemony
A group of women and their children rush towards an emergency feeding centre in Niger
African states were mostly just lines on the map of colonial conquests, and the colonizers often kept ownership of land and resources.
Imperial disintegration in Africa / Falling dominoes of Western Neo Colonial Scam
Local allegiance is usually more to ancient smaller tribal cultures, so it was easy to pick strong men, lend them dollars and set up eternal debt cow interest payments, milking penniless artificially created states forever in total poverty.
Niger for instance, while supplying France with 30% of its nuclear power has less than 20% of its own people with electricity, in rural areas just 9% and FALLING RAPIDLY. worldbank.org. And that electricity has to be imported at a premium.
Below we share a typical post lamenting the lack of UN ‘Patch Up’ aid and blaming the coup for bottlenecks. UN aid is wonderful if you have nothing, but still it is just a patch, used to legitimize the continuing looting of resources, and cover up the historical war crimes, slavery, etc.
Fears Of French and US Attacks as Uranium exports stopped in Niger Coup
The UN is in New York, funded mainly by the West and hand in glove with the US neo colonialists , IMF, and World Bank “debt milkers” who hold trillions of dollars privatized in offshore Tax Havens.
When the putrid system breaks down in local war and chaos we proudly send UN Peacekeepers, just to keep things ticking over. and launch emergency humanitarian appeals, mainly subscribed to by working class well wishers.
There is no thought out policy from the West. Niger’s population has increased TENFOLD since 1950 ( though still not excessive in principle for the size of the country). 90% of folks live in rural villages, where the ancestral culture was to have as many kids as possible.
With basic medicine most now survive but due to zero resources little or no future exists for them, Niger has the HIGHEST BIRTH RATE ON THE PLANET, according to Wikipedia.
The battle lines are drawn.. The coup leaders demand that France and the US close down their military bases.
Meanwhile the desert grows. And a huge area of Niger is contaminated with blowing radioactive sand from 20,000 tons of tailings abandoned from a worked out French Uranium Mine. We can only imagine the immense consequential suffering caused.
The hopes of the Niger revolutionaries seem to be, like 24 other pauperised countries, to join the BRICS system, evade their “Odious Debts” by boycotting the dollar and euro, and become part of a new multilateral system, ironically close to the original aims of the United Nations.
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UN really worried by Humanitarian Aid blocking as West and proxies sanction its poorest ex colony text by Al Jazeera
“The risk is that we start running out of assistance materials to be able to help out people – I’m talking about simple things that are so lifesaving,” Aubin told Reuters news agency, listing food, vaccines and cash as areas of concern.
“Some people will soon be feeling the pinch of this … More than the 4.3 million people we had planned on supporting through emergency humanitarian assistance, we might see that number growing and growing fast.”
On Monday, UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was “very concerned” about the situation in Niger and urged the international community to “do everything” to help those in need.
Any humanitarian cutbacks could have devastating impacts in Niger, which has one of highest rates of child mortality in the world and where rural communities have been hit by a deadly rebellion.
Aubin said flights operated within Niger by the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) had been disrupted but not suspended by the coup leaders’ decision to close its airspace in response to the West African regional bloc’s threat of possible military intervention.
But that and the closure of land borders under sanctions imposed by the bloc – the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – means the outlook for replenishing stocks in Niger is uncertain, she said.
“There are no flights coming in at the moment. So that is becoming an issue,” Aubin said. “Being able to mobilise food means obviously being able to bring in food from the outside.”
It was not immediately possible to determine how long stocks of food products or vaccines would last, but “these are quickly depleted because these are regular operations to be able to reach people in need”, she cautioned.
UN agencies in Niger – including the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – are contingency planning to keep operations on track despite the looming shortages.
Military intervention looming
Niger’s military rulers have warned its citizens to be prepared for challenging weeks and months ahead as the government vows to defend itself against possible attack.
ECOWAS had given the coup leaders until Sunday, August 6 to release and reinstall deposed President Mohamed Bazoum or face a possible military intervention.
ECOWAS calls for second emergency summit to discuss Niger coup
Members from ECOWAS, the UN and the African Union were expected to join talks in the capital, Niamey, on Tuesday, a foreign official told The Associated Press news agency on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to media.
The threat of military escalation poses a further risk to humanitarian operations.
“The people of Niger are likely to suffer more,” said Aubin, “so we need to be able to respond very, very strongly.”
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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