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Vested interest: The last French troops withdrew from Niger on 22 December last year, marking an end to more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in West Africa’s Sahel region. Photo: Boureima Hama/AFP

Scramble for the Sahel intensifies

Why foreign powers France, Russia, China and the United States are interested in the region

  • Eyaaz
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