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How Niger’s foreign-funded army derail its anti-jihadist fight

How Niger’s foreign-funded army derail its anti-jihadist fight

NIGER'S foreign donors have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on training and supporting its security services over the past five years as they seek to contain a growing jihadist insurgency linked to a franchise of the so-called Islamic State. Authors GIACOMO ZANDONINI, TOMAS STATIUS and MOUSSA AKSAR But the mostly European donors have failed to put in place strong programmes to prevent rights abuses by the army, and haven’t held the Nigerien authorities to account for the alleged deaths and disappearances of hundreds of civilians rounded up during anti-jihadist operations, local rights groups, aid officials, and foreign diplomats told…
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