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• COUPS AND THE KREMLIN
• FOURTH COVID WAVE
COUPS AND THE KREMLIN
While the world’s attention is on the Ukraine, Russia is extending its influence into Francophone regions of the Sahel in countries like Mali and Burkina Faso. The latter two countries recently had coup d’etats against weak democratic governments, joining other military takeovers in nearby Guinea and Chad. While Burkina Faso and Mali both have a long history of coups, these were partly precipitated by army a