Harmattan Hazards: How Coastal West Africa Can Escape The Sahel’s Fate – Analysis

By Suzanne Tisserand

**Violence and failures breed dictatorships**

Benin, a narrow coastal country next to Nigeria, suffered its worst terrorist attack ever this year. Officials revealed on April 24th that al-Qaeda-linked militants had killed 54 soldiers in the country’s north the previous week—shattering earlier...