Oil, Guns, and a Common Enemy: Niger and Benin's Fragile Pipeline Détente
In the arid borderlands where the Sahel bleeds into coastal West Africa, Africa's longest oil pipeline carves a 1,950-kilometre artery from Niger's Agadem oil fields to the Atlantic port of Sèmè-Kpodji in Benin. For much of the past two years, that …