Battling Sahel insurgency: Russia reaps benefits from 'lack of African cooperation, local distrust'

As African leaders meet at the Counterterrorism Summit in Nigeria, FRANCE 24's Stuart Norval is joined by Professor Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian Political Scientist, Historian, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He is an expert on Islamism in the Horn of Africa and the Al-Shabaab group.


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