The Washington Post/Siobhán O'Grady and Danielle Paquette: Trump says ISIS is defeated — but in West Africa, there are fears extremism will get worse

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Trump says ISIS is defeated — but in West Africa, there are fears extremism will get worse

Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga pays tribute to U.N. peacekeepers killed during operations in Mali during a Peacekeepers’ Day ceremony May 29 in Bamako. (Michele Cattani/AFP/Getty Images)
By Siobhán O'Grady and
Danielle Paquette
March 28 at 5:10 PM

Days after President Trump declared the Islamic State’s caliphate had been eliminated in Syria, the prime minister of one of West Africa’s most turbulent nations urged the United States to shift attention to a rising extremist threat in the Sahel.

Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga visited Washington this...

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