By Adamu S. Ladan Recent revelations surrounding the escalating crisis in Mali have transformed what once appeared to be a localized insurgency into a wider geopolitical contest involving foreign intelligence networks, proxy…
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Traders turn smugglers, two years after Sahel countries exit ECOWAS
By Mohammed Dahiru Lawal Sama’ila Zubairu [not his real name], a grain trader from Dan Issa, a small agrarian village south of Niger Republic, felt a chill the first time he saw…