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U.S. efforts can advance peace with a wider scope, deeper integration to its efforts. As military coups and violent insurgencies have spread across Africa’s Sahel over the past decade, U.S. policy has professed to recognize
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Three West African coup leaders — a general, a colonel and a captain — gathered last weekend to formally ally their regimes in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Their meeting dramatized two realities for Americans
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