Ulf Laessing

jNIM, analyst

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France has lost a great deal of prestige and influence in Francophone African countries, especially in the Sahel region,
Russia will struggle to attract new clients for the Africa Corps because they just didn’t do their job — it’s reputational damage, what has happened,
Africa Corps has really lost credibility,
They staged an attack together in 2012 and took over northern Mali. Later, the jihadists got rid of the Tuareg,
Burkina Faso and Niger don’t really have the capacities. They’re busy themselves fighting off jihadists. They might help a bit with drone attacks, but I don’t think that Burkina and Niger will send troops.”
They don’t have the capacity to run a large city. They want to spark an uprising, hoping to pressure the government into negotiating with them, or that they get a new government,

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