Conflicts in West Africa and the Sahel regions have escalated in recent years, due to an alarming rise of violent extremist organizations and the proliferation of weapons – some having been pilfered from the Libyan conflict in 2011 and Chaos in Nigeria just 6 days to the general election with 240 polling centres ruled out following security concerns.
It’s my pleasure to welcome you in Dakar and around the world to this edition of WEEKLY TOP NEWS…your current affairs programme that brings to the fore issues across the subregion from an analytical point of view, and it’s coming to you from West Africa Democracy Radio 94.9FM Dakar and online at wadr.org
I am Imoh Edet your anchor and for the next hour, our experts in Dakar and Abuja will be examining the rising state of arms trafficking in the Sahel region and the chaos in Nigeria a few days before the elections and other developing stories