Possible Clues:

• About to trap retrograde foreign banker
• One first taken from another country
• W. African country
• Lawson wanting a new direction, finally, for the country
• Name of political leader wanting Right to oust Left in the country
• Man briefly joining river, one flowing through Mali
• Setback incomplete for Queen and Country
• Media exec Robert
• Niamey’s country
• Queen almost raised in African republic