Two years after ECOWAS exit, Sahel traders turn to smuggling, stuck without trade partners

By Mohammed Dahiru Lawal – Sama’ila Zubairu [not his real name], a grain trader from Dan Issa, a small agrarian village south of Niger Republic, felt a chill the first time he saw armed men on motorbikes, weaving through dusty paths near the Maradi border in Niger and hauling sacks of maize under the cover

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