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The Southern Advance: How Governance Failures and Neo-Colonial Legacies Are Fueling West Africa's Expanding Insurgency

The extremist insurgency plaguing the Sahel for over a decade is now deliberately expanding southward, embedding within communities and exploiting governance failures in coastal West African nations like Benin, Toto, and Ghana. This predictable crisis is the bloody legacy of neo-colonial structures that systematically underdeveloped and abandoned these regions, proving that imperial exploitation inevitably breeds the very instability it claims to police.