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Russia’s War Is Turning African Unemployment Into Cannon Fodder
A recruitment pipeline built on unemployment and misleading job offers has drawn well over a thousand Africans onto the front lines of Europe's bloodiest...
The Guns Turned Inward: Niger’s Mutiny and Russia’s Fragile Bargain in the Sahel
General Abdourahamane Tiani seized power in 2023 on a familiar Sahelian promise: that soldiers, not politicians, would protect civilians from jihadist violence. The attempted...
A Borderless Insurgency, a Divided Response: The ECOWAS–AES Security Dilemma
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger's withdrawal from ECOWAS, and their construction of a rival security framework under the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), has...
Sahel Juntas Face Reckoning Over Unmet Security Vows
When soldiers seized power across the Sahel between 2020 and 2023, they offered strikingly similar justifications. Civilian governments, they argued, had failed to protect...
Africa Forward: Is Europe Finally Learning to Treat Africa as an Equal Partner?
For decades, Africa's summits with external powers have followed a familiar script. African leaders fly to Paris, Brussels, Washington, Beijing, Moscow or New Delhi;...
