Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger hit back at Nigeria’s president after he blames them for Nigeria’s worsening security crisis

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).