The West’s Loss Of The Sahel: Not (Only) Russia’s Doing – Analysis
By Dan Whitman
(FPRI) -- After a bit more than two years, Russia’s disinformation campaigns in Africa’s Sahel region look like the quickest propaganda success ever staged. The three countries in the Sahel where military powers recently seized power—Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and set up a rival defense pact, the Alliance of Sahel States. They formalized this on July 6, 2024, just one day before an ECOWAS summit in Abuja... Читать дальше...