What’s behind the Niger coup?
The Briefing Room
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Niger: A Landlocked Country in the Sahel
Niger sits in the Sahel, a band of fairly arid terrain that stretches right across West Africa. The northern half is essentially the Sahara Desert and the southern half has a pretty arid climate. It just rains two or three months of the year from sort of late June through to early September. So it's in a very fragile position geographically and climatically.
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