German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Senegal on Monday in an effort to intensify cooperation with West Africa’s democracies in order to keep at bay the instability currently seen in the Sahel countries. “Security here in the region, the future prospects of this region, are also closely linked to our own security and our own development,” Baerbock said in Dakar. “The problems and challenges of the region, terror, migration, organized crime and poverty also directly affect us in Europe,” said the minister, who is also planning to visit Ivory Coast, another of West Africa’s few re…