GenZedong

The French puppet president was deposed and the military is taking charge. Whether this will be a positive development or not remains to be seen. It could end up making things worse if this results in some kind of intervention, civil conflict or insurgency being launched by the West, especially France whose tentacles are still deeply embedded in the region.

Luckily Russian forces are already in neighboring countries suppressing western backed Jihadists and safeguarding stability, and Niger could invite the Russians to do the same for them, preempting any kind of Western ploy to destabilize the situation.

There is good reason to be optimistic imo, since if through this change of government Niger ends up gaining some real sovereignty and independence from European neo-colonialism - most importantly they have to break free from the stranglehold that France has over the economies of West Africa through various monetary instruments - the way for example has been happening in places like Mali recently, this will undoubtedly be a good thing for the working class in Niger, and in the region as a whole since it will serve as yet another example of Africans evicting the colonizers and their comprador puppet leaders and Africans taking control of their own destinies.

If stability is maintained, whatever new government emerges, if it is truly one that is no longer subservient to France or the collective West, can begin to develop the country, its infrastructure, it's productive forces and it's human resources with the help of China and slowly but surely improve the living conditions.

There is still a lot of uncertainty over how things will develop in this situation in the short term or whether the West can apply enough pressure to reverse the coup, or if they can co-opt the military government through bribery and coercion, or control whatever civil government inevitably comes to take its place. If so it would be a significant setback but it would be temporary as the overall trend of the region as a whole is accelerating more and more in the direction of the multipolar world, i.e. away from Euro-American hegemonic dominance, and that is definitely a good thing for us as Marxists since it opens the door to a new wave of liberation movements, people's revolutions and socialist governments.