Meeting with Naaja, page-3

Denmark foreign and security policy Jan 2022

Release date 31 January 2022

https://um.dk/~/media/um/english-site/documents/uss%20en_web.pdf?la=en

My broad observations:

1. The focus on the Sahel region of Africa which is rich in resources.

‘Natural resources, both renewable and extractives are extremely important to the livelihoods and economies of the Sahel (defined as Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger). For example, agriculture accounts for over 30% of Mali’s GDP and cotton and gold account for over 80% of exports (IMF, 2018, p. 6). There is potential for conflict between renewable and extractive
natural resource sectors. For example, pastoralists in Niger have lost access to migration routes and land due to the enclosure by mining corporations (Larsen & Mamosso, 2014).

The region is one of the richest in the world in terms of natural resources, including oil, gold and uranium (UN, 2018, p. 7). However, the Sahel, a semi-arid region, is one of the poorest and most
environmentally degraded in the world (USAID, 2017, p. 1). For example, Niger, despite its abundant extractive resources is ranked 187/188 on the Human Development Index (Sangare &
Maisonnave, 2018, p. 581).’

2. Strengthening the alliance between America and Denmark (EU)

3. Building a supply line of needed resources. Sahel to the EU/America?

4. Is Greenland being shown it could be bypassed as Denmark funding moved to the Sahel?

This is happening at the same time as the EU moves to included nuclear power as green.