Will the Sahel Survive Another Coup?: WestAfrica
An Arab, deposed President Bazoum's attempts to shuffle his Fulani-dominated Republican Guard, may have triggered the coup. With French and US troops stationed there, and Russia in the background, the coup echoes far beyond Niger's borders.
Are the pressures of economic and climatic adversity, and runaway demographic growth bringing unbearable pressure to bear on still-fragile democracies? If they collapse, how will these countries be governed? Can democracy be reinvigorated or will authoritarianism return? Will jihadists gradually extend the influence of their radically alternative form of government, or will parts of Africa be effectively re-colonised by mercenary groups that prop up local regimes in return for despoiling the...
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