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Algeria president confirms 3 Algerian citizens were killed by Morocco. It is being described as an "act of war"

Del Cap wrote:

The President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has Officially Requested that the Senate of Nigeria support a Full-Scale Military Intervention against the Military Junta in Niger, while also calling for a Blockade against the Land and Air Routes to and from Niger. pic.twitter.com/5Ep5YnwU5J

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 4, 2023

Here's why the West is worried about the coup in Niger that has altered the balance of power in West Africa: pic.twitter.com/KEH62KTxvq

— DW News (@dwnews) August 5, 2023

"The video below shows Nigeria and Niger Military Strengths..

Though I'm not supporting any act of war here, I pray and believe the ECOWAS and the Coup plotters come to terms that will bring an end solution

Maryam Shetty Niger Northern Nigeria Niger BokoHaram Wagner Matawalle pic.twitter.com/2XcuEMpbXq

— #DeFendersFC (@IAMWHYGEEY) August 5, 2023

A $13bn project to build a gas pipeline connecting giant gas fields in Nigeria to Europe is threatened by the recent coup d'état in Niger.

The long discussed 5,600-kilometre pipeline could fuel 11 countries along the African coast on its way to Morocco and then be connected to the energy system of Spain or Italy was given fresh impetus after Russian gas supplies to the EU were cut off last year.

At a meeting held in the Nigerian capital of Abuja last June, energy ministers from Algeria, Nigeria and Niger agreed to accelerate the work on the mooted Trans-Saharan gas pipeline (TSGP), which could carry 30bn cubic metres per year of gas exports from the three countries to Europe.

Niger ranks 189th out of 191 countries in the 2022 UN Human Development Index.

Despite being the 7th largest supplier of uranium in the world, Niger also ranks 7th among the world's poorest countries.

In Niger, where approximately 10 million people (41 percent of the total population) live in extreme poverty, 40 percent of the state budget consists of foreign aid.
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Additionally, heavily dependent on neighboring Nigeria for electricity, Niger is facing a significant energy crisis.

Nigeria, which supplies 70 percent of Niger's electricity needs, cut off the power supply to Niger, leading to a complete halt in electricity provision.

Niger's coup leaders, who closed all land borders and airspace when they took control on July 26, announced on Tuesday that borders to some neighbors were reopened.

People and goods can move again to Algeria, Libya and Chad — who aren't in ECOWAS — as well as to ECOWAS members Mali and Burkina Faso, who support the coup leadership.

But the key borders to Benin and Nigeria remain closed due to the ECOWAS sanctions.

The Atlantic ports of those two nations are vital to Niger for the import and export of goods, Abdoul Aziz Seyni, an economist at the University of Niamey, told Reuters news agency.

"We ... aren't a country with direct access to the sea," Seyni said. "Everything we buy arrives at the ports of neighboring countries, and from these neighboring countries we have to transport it to Niger. So if these countries decide to close their borders, frankly there will be an impact on the socio-economic life of Nigeriens."