Niger's Prime Minister Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman:

They want to make us believe that we are incapable of governing ourselves, producing, thinking and defending ourselves.

They want to convince us that we lack the science, intelligence and sovereignty to build something precious by and for ourselves — and that we should accept the tutelage of Emmanuel Macron’s France and its allies.

For centuries they have instilled self-deprecation, fear and resignation. They continue to want to produce permanent conflict in communities which, since time immemorial, have been living in harmony.

This perfidious attempt to destabilize the central Sahel, conducted by France with the active complicity of Ukraine, is now documented.

This criminal enterprise has been unmasked now that the military, political and media elites that justify it have themselves removed their masks.