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Algeria denies French military aircraft passage to Niger (www.newarab.com)

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[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As I understand it the French paid the last guy a lot of money to shut down human trafficking. A lot of people in Niger make their money from that and the last guy rather than use the money to create alternative industries people could work in elected to keep the money

[–] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was not aware of that. Thanks!

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

it's just something someone I was talking to in a pub said this guy likes to follow the news but I haven't looked into it myself