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 - 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 »

West Africa: Sahel - Terrorists, Tribalists and Traffickers?

Obvious, that very complex question is now more frequently raised than ever before. It calls for an answer. Ten years of wars - with international forces support - deaths,… 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 - Mali, a Thorn in the G5 Foot

The Sahel countries are facing the following dilemma: how to fight terrorism without the cooperation of that scourge epicenter ei Mali? The Transition regime pushed the French… Read more »

West Africa: The Security Crisis - Sahel, Maghreb and European Union

The choice of theme - Sahel, Maghreb and Europe Union - is topical and moreover operational, that is to say ready for implementation. It is indeed wise to link the long and… Read more »

West Africa: Sahel and Ukrainia, Challenges of a Region in Transition.

The war raging in Ukrainia since February 24 is tragic in terms of its ensuing human losses and the massive material destruction that have already been done. It is particularly… Read more »

West Africa: High-Level Seminar on Regional Reconfiguration of the Eastern Sahel

The 4S Centre and Promediation are organising a high-level seminar in Niamey on February 23 and 24, 2022 on the regional reconfiguration of the Eastern Sahel (Libya, Chad, Sudan,… Read more »