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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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Supporters of Niger's National Council of Safeguard of the Homeland display a French national flag with a x-mark on during a protest outside Niger and French airbase in Niamey on September 1, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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A vehicle with Somali National Army soldiers on patrol on October 17, 2022, near Doolow in the Gedo region of South West, Somalia. (Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)
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A soldier of Somalia's breakaway territory of Somaliland stands guard during a parade in Hargeisa on May 18, 2016. (Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images)
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People stand on the debris of the house which was razed to ground during the gunfight between militants and Indian security forces in Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir on October 16, 2021. (Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) gather for a demonstration in Niamey on August 11, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin with Ibrahim Traore and Dennis Fassou Nguesso during the annual Navy Day Parade on July 30, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (via Getty Images)
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Personnel of the Somali military force supporting anti-government opposition leaders are stationed on a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 25, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
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People demonstrate in Niger's capital, Niamey, to show their support for the coup plotters. (Djibo Issifou via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
