A fight for influence between France, Russia, and the United States in the central Sahel has fomented disaster in the region, after an al Qaeda affiliate filled the vacuum opened by the competition. As a former colony of the French Empire, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have traditionally fallen in France’s orbit. Paris intervened in […]
How great power competition in the central Sahel helped open a vacuum for al Qaeda
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How great power competition in the central Sahel helped open a vacuum for al Qaeda