What the coup in Niger means for West Africa and the world wlrn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wlrn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The West African country of Niger has been a bright spot of growing democracy and security across sub-Saharan Africa. Now, a coup there threatens to destabilize the region.
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Three years of coups around Africa’s Sahel region eight of them in six nations, from Guinea on the Atlantic to Sudan on the Red Sea leave many African and other policymakers frustrated over how to respond. The Sahel’s crises have uprooted more than 4 million people and could add millions more to our record levels of global human migration as Africa’s population grows and its climate destabilizes. Yet the pattern of coups and other evidence notably from USIP’s Sahel fieldwork, counter-coup research and bipartisan analysis teams offer guidelines for effective responses by African, U.S. and international policymakers.