Third attack in a year on Base 101 in Niamey. The Russians and Algerians are fighting for economic reasons. Italy is doing so for security reasons. Yet security is going down the drain everywhere in the country

First the missionary kidnapped in Niger, Kevin Rideout; now two mercenaries from the Africa Corps. Saddam’s strange mediation with the Tuaregs and terrorists, sponsored by Abu Dhabi, in a bid to become the hero of Trump and Putin