Pedro Stropasolas

Jan 23, 2025 | allafrica.com | Pedro Stropasolas

Women in Niger have been the most impacted by terrorist attacks in the country and now they donate money and goods to strengthen the anti-colonial fight in the countryWomen have always been at the forefront of people's struggles in Niger. The example of Saraounia Mangou is emblematic and became a film.

Jan 16, 2025 | peoplesdispatch.org | Pedro Stropasolas

Women have always been at the forefront of people’s struggles in Niger. The example of Saraounia Mangou is emblematic and became a film. In the 1890s, while most of the chiefs of the West African country were submitting to colonial power, the chief and priestess of the Hausa people led the fight against the French troops of the Voulet-Chanoine colonial mission, also called the Central African-Chad Mission. More than a century later, history has repeated itself.

Jan 13, 2025 | allafrica.com | Pedro Stropasolas

After expelling the French military, the people of Niger are fighting to overthrow the remaining colonial structures"Homeland or death, we will win." This sign stands in the Place de la Patrie, one of the cradles of the popular struggle against France in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Today, it serves as a meeting point where people gather, chat, and watch the movement on Boulevard Zarmaganda, home to the headquarters of the first popular committee supporting the Nigerien army.

Jan 10, 2025 | brasildefato.com.br | Pedro Stropasolas |Ana Rocha

Women have always been at the forefront of people’s struggles in Niger. The example of Saraounia Mangou is emblematic and became a film. In the 1890s, while most of the chiefs of the West African country were submitting to colonial power, the chief and priestess of the Hausa people led the fight against the French troops of the Voulet-Chanoine colonial mission, also called the Central African-Chad Mission. More than a century later, history has repeated itself.

Dec 10, 2024 | allafrica.com | Pedro Stropasolas

interview Philippe Noudjènoumè blames France for terrorist presence in the Sahel and criticizes the Benin government's collusion with Macron On August 11, 2023, two weeks after the coup d'état in Niger, Philippe Toyo Noudjènoumè, general secretary of the Communist Party of Benin, wrote a letter to the president of his country, Patrice Talon, and asked a precise and simple question: "What interests led Benin to go to war with Niger, to starve its 'sister' population?" He continued: "You want...