Counting coups in Africa, Niger edition

Counting coups in Africa, Niger edition

• Things in Africa are getting ugly again.

"…Bazoum, 63, is one of a dwindling group of pro-Western leaders in the Sahel, where a rampaging jihadist insurgency has triggered coups against elected presidents in Mali and Burkina Faso...
...That perception is so powerful right now and driving so much of Africa into the arms of China and Russia...

You could call that a “Russian red belt” if you wanted to...