🇳🇪 Niger at the UN: "Ladies and Gentlemen, as I speak to you, at our northeast borders stand the proxies led by France, backed by Ukraine and 2 other countries." "And you know full well which countries I mean." "These proxies are armed, guided, directed, about to attack our military positions and our oil installations. But they will get what they deserve, inshallah." "Our Sahel is at war. A war of liberation against a conspiracy aimed at its recolonization." "What some call terrorism in our region is a cynical scheme of recolonization dressed in extremist rags." "Niger's uranium, the gold of Mali and Burkina, lithium, gas, oil and so many other riches keep the old powers salivating." "This perfidious destabilization of the central Sahel, led by France with Ukraine's active complicity -- documented, very documented." "Niger's uranium lit up Europe's cities while ours stayed in darkness. This injustice has now ended. It is over." "A people that has decided to be free cannot be recolonized, not by fear, nor by cunning, nor even by savage violence."