Ireland has played a role in EU efforts to shore up fragile states of Africa’s Sahel region
Yet, after years of fighting, conflict has spread. Relations with local rulers have deteriorated, while the former colonial power has become the focus of blame among the local population for their continued troubles.
Niger, the country next door with a friendly government in charge, was the country to which European efforts in the Sahel were supposed to be relocated. Much about the coup remains unclear, including the nature of Russian influence and to what extent the Wagner mercenary group continues to be an instrument of Russian state interests following boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow.
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