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Why the US isn’t calling the crisis in Niger a ‘coup’
The Biden administration is still holding back from labeling the military takeover of Niger’s government a “coup” a week after it was launched.  The careful word choice keeps in play an estimated $200 million of humanitarian and economic support to the country, largely food assistance for a country of 25 million people where at least 40 percent are estimated to be living on less than $2 per day.   And while the U.S. has suspended military cooperation with Nigerien forces, the administration has not signaled it’s evacuating an estimated 1,100 U.S. troops, who are engaged in counterterrorism, surveillance and intelligence gathering with Nigerien forces.  “The U.S., I think, is doin

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