Russia Must Think Carefully About Its Next Moves In Mali After This Weekend’s Reported Ambush By Andrew Korybko Russia must avoid being drawn into the quagmire that its non-state adversaries and their speculative Western allies are hoping to create for it… Read More ›
What Are Turkish Syrian-Sourced Mercenaries Doing In Niger? By Andrew Korybko Objectively speaking, Niger seems interested in broadening its number of non-Western security partners, which is being done in this case by allowing its Turkish partner’s Syrian-sourced mercenaries to protect their… Read More ›
Russia’s Burkinabe Deployment Is A Pretty Big Deal By Andrew Korybko Slowly but surely, a new Russian-backed pole of influence is emerging in Africa, which could eventually attract the participation of neighbouring multipolar countries like similarly military-led Guinea. The first contingent… Read More ›
Which Coastal State Will Provide The Sahelian Confederation With Reliable Access To The Sea? By Andrew Korybko Nigeria can always return to blackmailing that bloc on whatever pretext, while Mauritania lacks the infrastructure to facilitate this, and Morocco is unlikely to… Read More ›
The Sahelian Alliance’s Plans To Create A Confederation Will Transform Continental Dynamics By Andrew Korybko It’ll of course take some time to reap the fruits of this vision, but throughout the interim, these countries can rely on varying degrees of Russian… Read More ›
Niger’s Ousted Leader Initially Promised To Fight Terrorists But Ultimately Allied With Them By Andrew Korybko Without any exaggeration despite how sensational it sounds, Bazoum literally allied with Al Qaeda and ISIS’ regional affiliates according to The Economist, and he even… Read More ›
It’s Likely That Algeria Will Play An Important Role If West Africa Descends Into War By Andrew Korybko Security and ideological interests account for why the Algerian Chief of Staff just flew to Moscow. His country wants to coordinate with its… Read More ›
The Coup In Niger Could Be A Game-Changer In The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko It’s too early to tell whether the Nigerien junta is multipolar like its neighbours or if it’ll be co-opted by the West to function as… Read More ›
Is France Funnelling Ukrainian Arms To West African Terrorists? By Andrew Korybko Mali and Burkina Faso, who’ve earlier accused France of supporting terrorism, should cooperate with those countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission whose recent summit saw Nigerian President Buhari… Read More ›
Why’s The West So Spooked By Possible Burkinabe-Russian Military Cooperation? By Andrew Korybko With Africa having emerged as among the hottest proxy battlegrounds in the New Cold War’s struggle for the future of International Relations, it’ll require Russia’s “Democratic Security” services… Read More ›
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