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Sahel region, Africa
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The Sahel

There's No Conspiracy in the Sahel - - There's a Gap, and Bamako Knows How to Use It

[African Arguments] A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel's military governments. It's a tidy story. It bundles sanctions, frozen a...

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