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Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (R) welcomes Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) upon his arrival at Bamako airport on March 2, 2018. — Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (R) welcomes Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) upon his arrival at Bamako airport on March 2, 2018. — MICHELE CATTANI/AFP via Getty Images

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) greets Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace, amid the New Global Financial Pact Summit in Paris on June 23, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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After Niger coup, France worries over Russia's influence, impact on North Africa

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Supporters hold a poster depicting Malis interim leader and head of Junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta (L) and Guinea Interim leader and head of Junta, Mamady Doumbouya (R), in Bamako, Mali, on September 22, 2022 during Mali's Independence Day military parade. (Photo by OUSMANE MAKAVELI / AFP) (Photo by OUSMANE MAKAVELI/AFP via Getty Images)

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As Mali’s junta pokes at Algeria, what’s at stake for North Africa and Sahel?

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

The last French soldiers board a French military plane to leave Niger for good, at the French base which was handed over to the Nigerien army, in Niamey on December 22, 2023. The last French troops withdrew from Niger on December 22, 2023, marking an end to more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in west Africa's Sahel region, AFP saw and Niger's military announced. The French exit from Niger leaves hundreds of US military personnel, and a number of Italian and German troops, remaining in the

What Niger-US rupture says about Russia and West's shaky future in Sahel

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

In Exmouth, reporting on North Africa and Gulf politics

Turkey is vying for instrastructure projects in Africa

Turkey, Iran, Morocco joust for greater role in Sahel

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