{"id":1167285,"date":"2023-08-02T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/production.public.theintercept.cloud\/?p=440286"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:01:00","slug":"niger-mutiny-another-u-s-trained-military-officer-led-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/02\/niger-mutiny-another-u-s-trained-military-officer-led-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22niger-mutiny-another-us-trained-military-officer-led-coup%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/niger-mutiny-another-us-trained-military-officer-led-coup?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><u>Troops from Niger<\/u> ousted the country\u2019s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, last week. One of the coup leaders had previously received training from the U.S. government, <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/07\/27\/niger-coup-leader-us-military\/\">becoming the 11th coup in the region<\/a> led by U.S.-trained officers. This week on Intercepted, Nick Turse, investigative journalist and contributing writer with The Intercept, joins Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain to discuss the unfolding events in Niger and the Sahel region. Turse outlines how Africa has seen elevated conflict and instability as the U.S. has increased its military involvement on the continent over the last two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/08\/02\/intercepted-podcast-niger-coup-us-military-officer\/\">Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/08\/02\/intercepted-podcast-niger-coup-us-military-officer\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-trained military officers have taken part in 11 coups in West Africa since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/08\/02\/intercepted-podcast-niger-coup-us-military-officer\/\">Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171038,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167285\/revisions\/1171038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}