Ivory coast doubled to about three thousand, the number of soldiers it deployed in its northern frontier regions. Gana too has moved troops to its north and set up its first ever special forces unit. A sinor vorian defense official told me that western allies also need to perhaps re balance a little their response.
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with—what is going on in Ukraine. Dissent is being met with increasing repression. A wave of jihadism is crashing across the states of West Africa and the battle lines are moving south. And reasons for both hope and concern in our annual glass-ceiling index.
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