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As Russia fans anticolonial sentiment to influence affairs on the continent, the West must avoid drawing the wrong conclusions from the military coup in Niger

A conversation with UNICEF Cote dIvoire Representative Marc Vincent about building community resilience amid an influx of refugees from Burkina Faso.

Losing support in many parts of the world, its a very different situation in the sahel. there, theyre actually taking even more territory. and niger was an important ally for countries trying to fight groups, islamist groups like those ones. and so the worry is that if you have instability in such a crucial country, in such an important region, it could cause further instability. a jury in the united states has sentenced to death a gunman who murdered eleven people at a synagogue in the city of ...

The original Great Game was a complete waste of time and nobody won. In fact, there was nothing there worth fighting for.

ECOWAS has previously led interventions in the region, most recently in 2017 in Gambia to ensure a transition of power following former President Yahya Jammeh's attempt at disrupting a democratic handover.

   by gwynne dyer  if you are a democratically elected leader in one of africa’s sahel countries – let’s say, niger – and you suspect that the army is plotting to overthrow you, what’s the best counte

The junta in Guinea has also joined the call.

The coup has prompted demonstrations against the former colonial power.

The unrest comes as Niger is the latest country in the African region of the Sahel to suffer a coup along with Mali and Burkina Faso.

Take a map of Africa, shade in the nations that have had military coups over the last few years, and you'll see the pattern: It's what Declan Walsh in the New York Times...