Daily Memo: Junta Leaders Solidify West African Alliance, China and Belarus Hold Drills

Three junta-led countries are declaring their loyalty to each other.

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Pulling away. Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a new treaty that will cement an alliance they announced last year. The formalization of the Alliance of Sahel States will pull the three countries further away from another regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, which they left in January. The treaty was announced […]

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