Niger.

This is coolbert:

All of a sudden out of nowhere Niger is a hot-button item.

"hot button: noun - an emotional and usually controversial issue or concern that triggers immediate intense reaction"

And for what exactly?

"BREAKING: Unconfirmed Reports of Wagner Group Personnel Aiding Coup in Niger"

From Red State ^ | 08/06/2023 | Ward Clark the tip from Freeper.

"Breaking news on the crisis in Niger; a PMC Wagner (Russian-language site at link) source has stated: A decision was made to deploy combat troops of the Wagner PMC in & around the capital of Niger, in light of current security situation & foreign threats. PMC Wagner, also known as the Wagner Group, is a Russian state-funded military group controlled by Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, and technically operates outside Russian law, which prohibits private military groups"

Comments:

* I had thought that Niger had extensive uranium mines producing yellowcake. Unprocessed uranium ore. But that is not the case. They DO HAVE extensive deposits of uranium ore as surveyed but not developed.

* The presence of Wagner PMC Russia we should find to be surprising? Yevgenyy likes mines of all sorts, salt, gypsum and now yellowcake.

* Other nations of the Sahel region proposing military action against the coup perpetrators to restore  "legitimate and legal constitutional" authority. Good luck with that one.

coolbert.