In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Mongabay
Mar 29, 2022, 12:45 pm347 pts
In early February, wildlife rangers in the remote northern forests of West Africa’s Republic of Benin became some of the most recent victims of the Sahel’s long-running Islamist insurgency when a series of roadside bombs was set off next to one of their patrols. After a rescue team in four vehicles arrived…

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