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Niger Demands Compensation From France for Colonial Plundering of Natural Resources: Reports

Colonial powers have a long history of exploiting and plundering the abundant natural resources and treasures of African nations. Resources were extracted and exported to the colonizers' home countries without much benefit or value-addition for the local populations.
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Head of Niger's ruling National Council for the Defense of the Homeland, General Abdourahamane Tiani demanded compensation from France for over a hundred years of colonial and neocolonial plundering of Niger's natural resources, media reported.
The West African country will study all archival data on the recent history of Africa and draw up a detailed schedule for the payment of all debts that the French have accumulated towards Niger, Tiani reportedly said.
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