Shaping news: terrorism spreads in the Sahel and China plays peace-broker in the Middle East
Pay attention to the shaping news, not just the breaking news.
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Pay attention to the shaping news, not just the breaking news.
As western troops across the African region pack up their things, the Russians are arriving in force.
Moscow is seeking to secure military, diplomatic and economic pacts with West African leaders in exchange for strategic access to the Atlantic Ocean.
There are many common threads to the coup d’états in the Sahel region and one of them is Russia.
The reality is that France never let go of its colonial grip on the Sahel and that, not Russian intervention, is the reason for the region’s instability.
President Macron is losing the will to continue France’s “forever war” in the Sahel.
British troops helping out in Mali as ‘peacekeepers’ but maybe the UK should do more.
Finally, after eleven months of Covid-related chaos and confusion preceded by two years of violent street protests against his stalled programme of economic reforms, President
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