Morocco, Niger Elevate Partnership as Model for Africa

Government-critical narrative

Morocco isn't stepping up as a stabilizing power — it's exploiting a regional power vacuum to expand influence through cooperation deals and religious outreach. Signing agreements and training imams projects control, but the Sahel’s crisis is still driven by violence and weak governance that external actors consistently fail to fix. This model follows a familiar pattern - soft power used to entrench leverage while sidestepping root causes.