A China-backed pipeline that would make Niger an oil-exporting country is being threatened by an internal security crisis and a diplomatic dispute with neighoring Benin, both as a result of last year’s coup that toppled the West African nation’s democratic government.
Coup-hit Niger was betting on a China-backed oil pipeline as a lifeline. Then the troubles began
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