Flashpoint: Geopolitics Simplified by Arezki Daoud
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The Sahel is the Next Big Geopolitical Crisis. Foreign Meddlers are Already There

Flashpoint: Geopolitics Simplified by Arezki Daoud
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The #Sahel is now clearly the next big event in Africa's geopolitics. After the complete destruction of #Libya, the same foreign powers that paid for the killing of a nation are now shifting their attention to the Sahel, establishing the bases of another sizeable crisis that will take decades to extinguish.  The Sahel has long been destabilized, at least in recent history. Its post-colonial era has been still dominated by France, despite the Sahelian nations being independent on paper. There have been no improvements for the region, but a fast worsening of the political, social, environmental, and economic conditions. Podcast below and transcript at: https://north-africa.com/zf5r

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