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The excessive reporting of the interplay between non-African powers in the Sahel—however crucial it may be to understand regional dynamics—betrays a Western-centric bias in international news coverage.

T he international partnerships that have dictated the Sahel’s response to violent extremism in the past decade are crumbling. As France is withdrawing its troops from Burkina Faso, and as the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali (MINUSMA) is under a great deal of scrutiny, new local and foreign actors are taking their chances at filling the military vacuum left by Western powers. International news outlets have extensively covered this geopolitical turn, with particular attention to the wrestle between the Western (led by France) and Russian spheres of influence. But the excessive reporting of t

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