Niger called this week for a Western intervention to eradicate a growing threat from Islamist fighters in southern Libya.
Nigerian soldiers patrol between Agadez and Arlit
AFP/Issouf Sanogo
Terrorism has established a base in the region since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
Niger's Interior Minister Massoudou Hassoumi told Radio France International that "The powers who intervened to overthrow Colonel Kadhafi (...) need to provide an after-sales service".
Niger shares a border with Libya and has had to contend with numerous Islamist attacks on its own soil those past two years.
US intelligence chief James Clapper highlighted, in an annual report published in December, the extent to which
sub-Saharan Africa had become a "hothouse" for extremists.
Samuel Laurent, author of "Sahelistan", is a consultant and a Libya specialist. He thinks such an intervention would be very risky and is not the right solution.
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