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Burkina Faso creates new anti-jihadist battalions
Burkina Faso last Friday announced that it was creating new rapid response forces, recruiting 14,000 soldiers and thousands of civilian support staff, to fight jihadist violence. Burkina Faso has b…

Institute for the Study of War
Russia is consolidating its strategic relationships with the Sahelian juntas to entrench itself in the region. The foreign ministers from the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger—traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian Foreign Aff

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Foreign Ministers Head to Moscow
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger’s foreign ministers will meet Russia’s Sergei Lavrov in Moscow for their first official AES-Russia talks, focusing on defence...
