We built a drone base there that we use to bomb the shit out of anyone who doesn't do what we say. We pay like $30-50M a year just to keep the lights on. https://reason.com/2024/03/19/americas-280-million-mission-in-niger-ends-in-failure/

Niger is on what is called "The Coupe Belt" it's necessary for geopolitical reasons. https://files.catbox.moe/obsqn6.png

Mining, exploitation of natural resources, keeping them tied to the Euro and charging them interest for their own money, also controlling import and export US, France, or UK have their puppet strings controlling most of the countries that touch water.