[UPDATE-Aug 12-20:30Z] Niger New Government Proclaimed, Junta Meets With Nigerian Envoys, Raising Hopes of Dialog

French political scientist brands Niger crisis as Macron’s embarrassment The events around the military coup in Niger have become a terrible tragedy and humiliation for French President Emmanuel Macron as he was forced to let the U.S. take the lead in this situation, political scientist Bertrand Badie, Emeritus Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, said. The expert said that Macron’s biggest mistake was harshly condemning the coup. “He soon realized that it was more complex than he thought,” Badie noted in an interview with Spain’s La Vanguardia newspaper. “Macron realized that he had hit a dead end. Due…