And yeah, how being the second or third exporter is not being a strategic supplier when the rest of the exports basically depend on Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan?
If you have to switch up your whole supply-chain, don't you think that the price will be steep?
As I've said, Niger still has less than half the population of France on twice the territory. They should have been out-of-poverty a long time ago if the fertility rates were that high.
And the fact that wars are due to multi ethnicity is a masquerade. African empires of yesteryear have always been multi-ethnic. They were stable until colonization (Middle-East incursions which brought slavery and then Europeans who partaked in and expanded) So no, I don't believe that in countries where there are so many inter-ethnic marriages, multiplicity of ethnicities are a valid reason to scaremonger people with the possibility of wars.