West Africa: Sahel - Resurgence of Boko Haram?

On the night of October 27 to 28, 2024, the Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Chadian garrison, located on Barkaram, island department of Kaya, near the Nigerian… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Deficits in Anticipation and Conflict Management

For the past 10 to 15 years, in the Sahel, security has yet to improve. On the contrary, it has become entrenched and has worsened. Fueled by infrastructures destructions and… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Terrorism and Surge of Trafficking

Terrorists attacks in Tinzwaten Mali, Niger oil pipeline, Barsalogho Burkina Faso and Barkaram island... It should be remembered that the advent of terrorism and the war in Libya… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Sadats, Turkish Wagners in Niger.

Wagner - renamed Africa Corps - heavy losses in Mali, July 2024, were widely publicized. But not those of new mercenaries of Syrian origin deployed in the Sahel by Turkey in Niger.… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel Lasting Crisis - Is It Only Terrorism?

The world over, terrorism devastating multiple effects and many consequences are well documented. However, the Sahel long lasting insecurity is an example of its terrorism… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Wagner Takes Control of the G5 Sahel

After Mali in September 2021, Burkina Faso in October 2022, Niger in March 2023, the Russian paramilitary company, Wagner, landed in Chad this April 2024. Of the five member… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel a State of Insecurity and a Multitude of Actors

Fifth edition of the Sahel Sahara Dialogue regional conference, Friedrich EBERT Stiftung. Read more »

West Africa: Migration Very Serious Demographic Problem - UN Secgen's Ex-Special Envoy for West Africa

Migration is a very serious demographic problem, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah said during the panel session on… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - a Trip to Japan - December 2023 - En

Returning from a week-long trip to Japan, I'm pleased to share with you a few of my first impressions. Impressions on both the trip organization as well as on substantive… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - the Fight Against Terrorism, the Waste

A multitude of actors are fighting terrorism in the Sahel: the concerned countries armies with the help of civilian auxiliaries and international partners. From 2012 to now, the… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel - Serious Old and New Perils

In the Sahel, while old security perils remain and keep spreading, at the same time, new destabilizing threats emerge and are extending. Focus of real international concerns, not… Read more »

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 - The War in Sudan

"Today what happens everywhere can be seen and heard everywhere". 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 - New National and International Challenges.

After a decade of confronting terrorism, what reform for the security sector in particular armed forces? Should priority be given to national or regional and international… 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 - the Invisible Dangerous Liaisons

Just ten years after the rescue of Mali official government by the French military operation Serval, which became Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that… 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 »