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What next for the Sahel region?
While recognising that Africans must chart their own course for the future, we must not fall into the trap of believing that throwing the French and United States out of the region will mean the people will automatically benefit, cautions ROGER McKENZIE
REGIME CHANGE: Burkinabe military officer Ibrahim Traore, who has been the interim leader of Burkina Faso since the September 30 2022 coup d’etat

THE global North has already lost to the global South. It is over.

Things will never return to the days of a load of (mainly) white blokes from a handful of rich countries sitting around a table and passing judgement on more than 80 per cent of the world.

Even the most sycophantic of global majority nation leaders have realised that the zero-sum game of complete subservience to the United States and its posse will no longer play at home.

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