Fighting in the Sahel has forced 1.7m people from their homes
Jihadists are only partly to blame
WESTERN GOVERNMENTS have long debated whether the costs of intervening in dangerous parts of the world exceed the risks. In February the United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But just as America extricates itself from one conflict, a power vacuum in Africa’s Sahel may drag it into another.
This article appeared in the Graphic detail section of the print edition under the headline “The next Afghanistan?”
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