Niger mutiny puts Russia’s expanding role in the Sahel to the test
But it demonstrates that when Niger’s military government faced an armed challenge from within its own military, it was able to call on Russian forces already operating inside the country.
Africa Corps may have helped the military government contain the immediate threat, but its intervention does not resolve Niger’s wider security crisis.
The intervention is significant because Russian forces were helping Niger’s military government confront an armed challenge from within its own military.
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