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The Alliance of Sahel States: Initial Difficulties as a Resource for Development

... of the situation in international affairs, the countries are in need of immediate solutions, rather than prospective scenarios of mutual assistance and law enforcement support On September 17, 2023 the transition leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter, instituting the Alliance of Sahel States. This happened in the midst of economic sanctions imposed on them by the subregion’s Economic Community of Western Africa (ECOWAS) and its threats to carry out a military ...

21.12.2023

Understanding the Niger Coup and its Implications

Located in the Sahel where more than 50% of the people live in poverty, Niger and several other nations face the threat of terrorism as it provides a fertile ground for terrorist cells. [1] More importantly, Niger was one of the region’s few nations that was not under military rule. Now, the country is blamed for human ...

29.08.2023

Colonial Dilemmas of the West

... leave altogether or look for new ways of maintaining their presence in Africa, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev . The ambivalence in which the leading Western countries find themselves in the aftermath of the military coup in Niger obviously illustrates their difficult search for a policy regarding developing countries, now that the traditional instruments of influence have been, to a large extent, exhausted. The story of the removal of President Bazoum from power continues ...

29.08.2023

Nuclear geopolitics. Shifting sands along Africa’s Uranium Road

... secretary of state Colin Powell and British prime minister Tony Blair in their effort to talk up the nuclear threat that would sell the president George Bush $3 trillion Iraq war. The “yellow cake” in question was alleged to have come from Niger, which has a historic contractual relationship with the French state owned uranium mining and processing industry. Some American media outlets, including Time magazine, dismissed the claim at the onset as being false. The consequences of the $3 ...

19.02.2014

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