Aid and the military aren’t just helpless against the emergency unfolding at Lake Chad—they’ve made it worse.

The Morning News http://ift.tt/2iSUJuA

The strategy is a paradox: in pursuing stability, it strengthens the autocrat, but, in strengthening the autocrat, it enables him to further abuse his position, exacerbating the conditions that lead people to take up arms.

↩︎ The New Yorker

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