Something has shifted in Niger. For weeks, the country has been grappling with a fuel supply crisis that has reshaped daily life for millions, and the moment of reckoning can no longer be postponed. Long queues have become a familiar sight outside service stations, transport networks are straining, and households are feeling the squeeze. Yet from the corridors of power comes a strikingly different narrative: the shortage, officials insist, is nothing more than a rumour. This is the turning point a juncture where the gap between what citizens experience and…
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