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RW Johnson: African juntas rue ejecting French Foreign Legion for Wagner
Amidst the overshadowing Hamas-Israel conflict, the Sahel region struggles with the aftermath of France's military withdrawal and the rise of Russia's Wagner Group.
By RW Johnson
The ferocity of the Hamas-Israel war has tended rather to blot out the news from Ukraine and other strife-torn theatres. One of these is the Sahel. Historically this was a region dominated by France and, indeed, haunted by stories of French neo-colonial control.
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