Fascinating graphics and an article which succeeds in distracting all attention away from Algeria. Whatever happened to the alphabet spaghetti acronymic equation so beloved of Keenan: CIA=DRS=AQMI ? USA is a huge player in the Sahara & Sahel with a rapidly mushrooming inventory of hardware and human resources in play. Perhaps it is articles like this and all the other focus on local players, or at least AU, EU, & MINUSMA which succeed in deflecting attention from what Uncle Sam is playing at in the region? The Sahara is certainly no more a wild, open, free playground in which to appreciate Nature and culture.....except possibly RIM.
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