French President Emmanuel Macron said that in the wake of a Western troop pullout in Mali, there is now room for Russia to move in and provide badly needed security assistance. The World’s host Carol Hills interviews Daniel Eizenga, a research fellow at the African Center for Security Studies, about how Russia is filling the security vacuum in Mali.
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