Guerillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) pictured in 1990.
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Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
Following an inconclusive election in December 2020, Niger’s Independent National Electoral Commission is set for a runoff in February.
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Although Niger’s quest for entrenching democracy is a good development, poverty and insecurity are obstacles.
A soldier from Niger patrols near the border with Nigeria. Porous borders with Nigeria and Mali are hotbeds for Jihadists and marauding local militias.
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Leaders’ efforts to end conflict have been ineffective. Working through regional economic communities might be part of a better approach.
A US army team carry the remains of Sgt. Dustin Wright, one of the soldiers killed in Niger.
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If the US, simply focuses on trying to hunt down jihadist leaders in Niger it will be missing an opportunity to address the underlying causes of violence in the region.
Military forces outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako where hostages were taken.
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The hostage situation at a hotel in the Malian capital Bamako comes after months of sporadic violence.