NIGERIEN KIDS BURN MACRON VAMPIRE EFFIGY

Video has emerged of children in Niamey setting fire to a cardboard cut-out of French president Emmanuel Macron depicted as a vampire.

Anti-French sentiment is high in Niger, which underwent a coup last summer. Coup leaders, with popular backing, have expelled French troops stationed in the country - and have also just ended a military agreement with the US.

The general anti-imperialist mood of the nation has clearly rubbed off even on its younger citizens. Let’s hope the country’s new direction means they’ll be able to grow up free of neocolonial exploitation and the resentment such treatment naturally breeds.

Do you think their futures burn brighter now?