Al Qaeda’s Sahelian affiliate JNIM is on the brink of taking over northern Mali and toppling the Malian junta, and while it is unlikely to
In recent years, Russian mercenaries in West Africa have gained considerable notoriety for, on the one hand, propping up post-coup military juntas and, on the
After two coups in both Burkina Faso and Mali in the past three years and another coup in Guinea in 2021, Niger became the latest
In the summer of 2023, it looked for a moment that West Africa was at risk of a regional inter-state war of the sorts it had not
