... Niger was once the cornerstone of the West's Sahel strategy. [2]
Source: Reuters
Given its uranium resources, geographic location, and colonial history, Niger has emerged as one of the most important nations in Africa for global powerplay. The recent coup in Niger has harmed Western interests as Niger played a crucial strategic role for the West. More importantly, the security of the entire region has further become more unstable, as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) call for ...
... (although the number is down this year). The way the attack was organized, however, is not characteristic of Islamists, particularly as it took place on the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim fast.
Meanwhile the Kazakhstan authorities have stated that a coup d’état planned by a group of security officials and military officers has been successfully thwarted. The plotters were led by the businessman Tokhtar Tuleshov, who is currently in prison.
In May of this year the security services prevented ...
... of instability, to return to the country.
However, the government and the opposition were not the only players in this process. The army and the Constitutional Court were frequently involved in the confrontation. Shinawatra was toppled in a military coup. In 2008 Shinawatra’s men, Samak Sundaravej and Somchai Wongsawat, were deposed as prime ministers by decision of the Constitutional Court. This time around, however, the judges and the military kept neutrality for almost half a year and did ...
What will become of Mali?
The Arab Spring and NATO aggression against Libya have triggered irreversible and highly dangerous processes in the Sahara-Sahel region. The Tuareg exodus from Libya has resulted in a military coup in Mali, a separatist war in the country’s northern region, and the creation of the self-proclaimed state of Azawad. There now looms a threat of a large-scale political and military crisis in the region.
The current conflict in Mali has a long ...
