Why is it that the coup d’etat in Niger generates so little interest?

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Let me anticipate the line of defence — “our audience isn’t interested” — and agree with it. No one has mentioned Niger to me in conversation since the coup began, and my peers are a passport-using, news-addicted crowd, in a city where the African influence is large and old. At the same time, I can read and hear all I could ever want about: the ordeal of renting a flat; dating and its discontents; and the effect of Elon Musk on Twitter’s user-friendliness. These are, in descending order, serious themes. But in letting them clutter its view of the world...