TheAltWorld 
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will withdraw its troops from Niger after refusing to do so in a nearly two-month-long stand-off with the people of Niger who demanded French troops leave the country after a popularly welcomed coup in July.
With the largest US drone base in the world located in Niger, is the US next to leave? Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek discuss.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
Theophilus
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