Niger votes in presidential runoff to usher in first democratic transition : worldnews

The Sahel nation of round 24 million is likely one of the poorest on the earth and struggles with recurring drought and harmful floods. The coronavirus pandemic has weighed on its financial system, whereas weak costs for its most important export, uranium, have hit revenues.

Niger is going through two of Africa’s deadliest insurgencies – one close to its western border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the place militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State have carried out a sequence of assaults. An assault on two villages in early January close to the border with Mali killed 100.

Alongside its southeastern border with Nigeria assaults by Boko Haram have killed lots of and displaced 1000’s.

Holy fuck, good luck is all I can say.