The Gulf of Guinea and West Africa: a new focal point?

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A good IMHO article by a known African specialist, Stephen Ellis:

A fusion of illicit money-making and radical politics is turning the big empty spaces of the western half of the Sahara into a profound security challenge.

Ends with:

The Europeans need to focus much more attention on what really happens in the Sahara.

Simply cannot see that happening.

Link:http://www.opendemocracy.net/stephen...and-radicalism

There is another thread on Mali, a little known country in the Sahara: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=9254