West Africa: Sahel - Gold, Resources and Threats

Introduction by Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, president centre4s.org Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Uncontrolled Threats Takes Hold

Immensely vast and still relatively lightly populated, the Sahel continues to be professed as a well-known region. However, for more than a decade, this region has never ceased to… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Growing Uncertainties and Insecurity

"Today what happens everywhere can be seen and heard everywhere". Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Sudan a New Pervasive Insecurity

Here we are! To the international community, the Sahel is now providing large dividends resulting from a long lasting political indifference and a military neglect or passivity.… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Sahel - Gold Mining and Terrorism

For a decade, gold exploitation, legal or illegal and official or informal, has known a speedy expansion throughout the Sahel. Its actors are numerous and range from Canadian and… Read more »

West Africa: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Face Unabated Terror Attacks

Terrorist attacks against Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger continue unabated. Over the last year, violence in the three countries has increased by 36% with 2 737 serious incidents. The… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel, Voices Crying for Assistance.

By its geostrategic dimension and the states engaged, openly or not, the war in Ukraine has relegated all other conflicts in the world to the... third level. This is even truer of… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel and the Accra Initiative - Conditions for Success

The Accra Initiative was born out of seven West African countries desire to pool together their resources to deal with emerging threats: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana,… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Continued Security Deterioration.

Mauritania has not been attacked by terrorists since 2011, and is hosting up to 115,136 Malian refugees and asylum seekers on its territory at the end of this past October. Chad is… Read more »