Niger: a Sahel country bumping along (catch all)

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Andrew Lebovich, a regional SME who has actually been there, has a column in FP. It ends with:

And while the threat to international interests in the region is real, it is these local communities whose lives are affected the most by these groups and by government responses — and also the local communities that will be most able to constrain them.
There is much we still do not know about what happened near Tongo Tongo on Oct. 4. But instead of looking at Niger as just another outpost of the global war on terror, our attention should be on the local and regional environments where these groups operate — and where the brunt of any increased military action will be felt the most.

Link:http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/27/...-are-in-niger/