With French president Emmanuel Macron grappling with a complicated loss of power at home, his illusions about restoring the glory days of the French empire have also taken a battering with the announcement by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger that they are forming an Alliance of Sahel States, which will support each other against external… Read more »
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