Burkina Faso / Sahel: Understanding the security crisis through the lens of the battle for resources
In the Sahel, geopolitics has a peculiarity: the more loudly a threat is announced, the more one must look beneath the ground For while cameras focus on press releases, staff maps, and “red zones,” geological maps remain strangely discreet. Yet they tell the most coherent story. Gold, uranium, lithium, manganese: the Sahel sleeps on a…