Sahel of a mess: France’s impossible peacekeeping mission

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Sahel of a mess: France’s impossible peacekeeping mission
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:23:01
• Published: 2020-11-12 11:57

Jihadism is growing in a continent-wide strip of Africa, and the riskiest operations to contain it fall to French troops. Our correspondent witnesses a fraught and seemingly endless mission. Peru has ousted yet another president, at a woeful time: the pandemic is raging, the economy cratering and politics fracturing. And the movement to water down Sweden’s state monopoly on booze. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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