The attack on Niamey airport, Malian sanctions against nationals in exile, the rise of the Alliance of Sahel States and Naftal’s mission in Niger compose one image: the Sahel is searching for a new sovereignty, but remains trapped in a crisis of security, legitimacy and capacity.
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The attack on Niamey airport, Malian sanctions against nationals in exile, the rise of the Alliance of Sahel States and Naftal’s mission in Niger compose one image: the Sahel is searching for a new sovereignty, but remains trapped in a crisis of security, legitimacy and capacity.
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Niger’s presence at the Moscow international security forum belongs to a broader sequence: Sahel states are seeking alternative partners after breaking with France, but diversification of alliances is not enough to produce real security sovereignty.
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The African Development Bank has presented the Algiers-Tamanrasset railway as a transformative infrastructure project. For Algeria, the stakes are deeper: anchoring the national territory to the south, opening a logistical line toward the Sahel and turning geography into economic power.
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The resumption of traffic through the Tsamiya-Kamba corridor has been presented as a regional reopening. It is above all a logistical compromise: trucks move again, commerce breathes, but the Niger-Benin border remains an unresolved political and security file.
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The oil protocols announced between Niger and China are not just about energy cooperation. They raise the question of real control over resources, financing, pipelines, ports, markets and the bargaining power of a landlocked Sahelian state.
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Au Mali, l’enclavement n’est pas une donnée neutre de géographie. Il devient une arme politique dès que les ports, les frontières, les assurances, les devises et les convois routiers entrent dans le rapport de force régional.
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In Niger, access to ICT is not only a matter of connection. It is a matter of state, territory, data and infrastructural dependence.
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In Libya, diplomacy does not pass only through political communiqués. It passes through bases, training, drones, advisers and frozen front lines. Behind Moscow’s and Ankara’s gestures, Libyan sovereignty itself remains negotiated in pieces.
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Libyan oil is again attracting major companies. But in a country where the state remains divided, infrastructure has been damaged by war and rent also feeds opaque circuits, the return of the majors does not automatically mean the return of sovereignty.
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