Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have sharply criticised Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over remarks linking Nigeria’s worsening insecurity to instability in neighbouring Sahel states, exposing fresh tensions between West Africa’s biggest economy and the breakaway Alliance of Sahel States (AES)

The AES countries summoned the Nigerian Chargé d’Affaires for a meeting in Ouagadougou.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have sharply criticised Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over remarks linking Nigeria’s worsening insecurity to instability in neighbouring Sahel…