France 🇫🇷 greatly condemned the coup d'état in Niger 🇳🇪.

While Protesters in Niger burned a French flag and shouted "down with France!" as they supported the coup.

"We have uranium, diamonds, gold, oil, and we live like slaves? We don't need the French to keep us safe" one said.
Over 50 per cent of the uranium ore extracted from Niger is used for fuelling French nuclear power plants. 24% of EU uranium imports, come from Niger, 30% of France’s Uranium is from Niger.