New details have emerged about a network of pro-Russian actors in the Sahel and beyond.
Reuters reported last year that Rideout was seized by three unidentified men on his way to the airport in Niamey and taken to the western Tillaberi region of Niger.
A recent report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies found that Russian state-aligned military forces flew at least 75 flights in Central Sahel.
Russia will continue to provide military backing for the junta-led governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who make up the Alliance of Sahel States, the parties said at a meeting in Niger's capital Niamey.
Los separatistas aseguran haber tomado Anefis mientras el Ejército da por controlados los ataques contra Gao y Sévaré, en una nueva escalada de la violencia en el Sahel. Leer