Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Gravitas Plus: Is Niger a victim of foreign exploitation? | WION" video.
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For around Nigeria area.
Before British colonization, at the beginning of the 19th century, Usman dan Fodio led a successful jihad against the Hausa Kingdoms founding the centralised Sokoto Caliphate. The empire with Arabic as its official language grew rapidly under his rule and that of his descendants, who sent out invading armies in every direction. The vast landlocked empire connected the east with the western Sudan region and made inroads down south conquering parts of the Oyo Empire (modern-day Kwara), and advanced towards the Yoruba heartland of Ibadan, to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The territory controlled by the empire included much of modern-day northern and central Nigeria. The sultan sent out emirs to establish a suzerainty over the conquered territories and promote Islamic civilization, the emirs in turn became increasingly rich and powerful through trade and slavery. By the 1890s, the largest slave population in the world, about two million, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto Caliphate. The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture.
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The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the pro-slave North African Barbary states (including Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) of North Africa in the early 19th century.
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Russia has armed Indonesians to suppress the black west Papuans. Look in the mirror.
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Statista's Mine production of uranium in major countries worldwide in 2022
1. Kazakhstan (former USSR, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
2. Canada (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement)
3. Namibia
4. Australia (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership)
5. Uzbekistan (former USSR, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
6. Russia (Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
7. Niger
8. China (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
9. India. (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
10. South Africa
11. Ukraine (former USSR)
12. United States (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement)
Niger has alienated France and the rest of the EU members, hence that's one less competitor for resource-rich Canada, Australia, and USA.
Never interrupt a competitor when he is making a mistake.
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