OUALLAM, Niger—The front lines in the war between the West and Islamist militants have shifted into Africa, from Somalia at the eastern tip of the continent to the West African Sahel, a semi-desert strip south of the Sahara.
In the Sahel, the United States and its allies are betting that Niger, the worst-off country in the world according to a UN measure, offers the best hope of stopping the seemingly inexorable spread of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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