As it stands right now most of the resources benefit European countries like FRance while places like Niger earn shit from their own resources with most folks living in poverty..
Niger is rich in uranium but most of it is mined and exported to France for it's nuclear power plants, electricity etc., while most of Niger remains in the dark - no basic electric power for its people.
That's only one example!
As you noted, coups usually disadvantage the folks on whose behalf they are carried out. For example, not only regular people lose their lives but structures are destroyed, democracy checkmated, businesses collapse etc etc.
Why these coups are getting so much support among Africans and those of us in the diaspora is because European countries like France have established a new kind of colonialism on the continent - a neocolonialism that's just as evil as the original.
And the beat goes on
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