Maybe if they could enter the free market with their natural resources, free from colonial France, they’d develop an economy that kept the natives home? Libia actually tried that until Hillary went ape siht.
Since we pretty much CLEANED OUT our military hardware inventory in Ukraine, I can see why countries like Niger see this is their moment in time to join what is quickly becoming the Russia-China led “Newest World Order”, thanks to the Neocon obsession with Russia.