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Alex of HistoryLegends telling the long story, adds many details.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=D8jerBxtDAA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D8jerBxtDAA

It would be nice to know what the govt and the "Africa Corps" has on their hands.
The important things are the large population centers and the gold mines. Not much else. And the populated part is along the Niger.
I gather from ChatGPT... that gold production is in the hands of Canadian, Australian, South African and Chinese companies. Just opening up Barrick Mining's "executives" page https://www.barrick.com/English/about/executive-team/default.aspx tells me the Chinese influence might be more than we think.
In any ways noone will harm any of these companies, it's basically a rivalry who gets to make deals with them. Or not. Perhaps it's all largely detached from the country. Luttwak's Coup d'État has some stuff to say about countries with strong foreign company influence, not sure how much that is relevant in this scenario (beyond the issue that this is not a coup but a rebellion).