Andrew Lebovich comments on the military golpe in Burkina Faso and the worsening security situation across the Sahel
It puts the Member States of the EU into a bit of a difficult situation because they took a very aggressive stance against the deployment of troops to Mali
Andrew Lebovich comments on attacks in Burkina Faso’s border area with coastal West African states including Benin and Ivory Coast
What people are concerned about is the ongoing insecurity and the state of security forces. So, if that doesn’t improve, the change in government certainly will not be enough to appease the opposition
Andrew Lebovich comments on how the Sahel conflict is set to worsen in 2022.
The coup was a terrible catastrophe but if there is any silver lining to be wrung out of it, I think that Hamdok’s calculus was that it gave him an excuse to disperse of the difficult people
Theo Murphy comments on the escalating situation in Sudan
[…] regional security forces are doing somewhat less patrolling and are doing somewhat fewer operations where they’re actually interacting with populations in rural areas, especially
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