If states continue to neglect their armed forces they risk giving room to jihadists
Cases have been reported in a few African countries where soldiers and police scour mitumba (second-hand clothes) markets for dress that "resembles" their official uniforms.
The government of Burkina Faso military dictator Captain Ibrahim Traore is in trouble. It is fighting a losing war against an Islamist insurgency and ruling over a country in a deep humanitarian crisis.
Karma truly is a bitch. Traore seized power in September last year, ousting interim leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal with the same Islamist insurgency that has flummoxed him.
