Niger Mutiny: Another U.S.-Trained Military Officer Led Coup
The Intercept Briefing
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The US's Anti-Terrorism Strategy in Africa
After 9-11, the United States started taking increased interest in African nations and particularly Niger. There were no transnational terror groups in Sub-Saharan Africa at the time. 20 years later, US Special Operations Command Africa counts about 50 transnational terrorist and militant groups on the continent. The U.S. has turned localized conflicts into regional conflicts that have taken what were local problems between ethnic groups and their governments to internationalized them.
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