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West Africa: Sahel - the Invisible Dangerous Liaisons
Centre 4s, 17 January 2023
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 »
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West Africa: Sahel - New National and International Challenges.
Centre 4s, 19 October 2022
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 »
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West Africa: Sahel, Voices Crying for Assistance.
Centre 4s, 21 September 2022
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 »
The Invisible Dangerous Liaisons in the Sahel Conflict
Just ten years after the rescue of Mali's official government by the French military Operation Serval, renamed Operation Barkhane a few months later, the security situation in that country remains structurally more fragile than in 2013.
The conflict, that has now become structural and deeply rooted, is presently more dangerous and gradually, but inexorably, affecting national cohesion and the affected countries public institutions.
Finally, it is larger in scale and its anchorage, previously indigenous, is increasingly regional. It asserts itself more each year in the face of an international community scalded by disappointing results, here and elsewhere, and above all largely absorbed by the very priority war in Ukraine.
Centre for Strategies and Security for the Sahel Sahara's Ahmedou Ould Abdallah writes that in the Sahel, few or no lessons have yet to be learnt from similar, high-profile conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia or Yemen.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in its World Report 2023 that African leaders failed to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by state security forces and non Read more »
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Over the years West Africa has dealt with chronic instability caused by political crises Read more »
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The Sahel region stretches from Senegal in the west through parts of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Sudan to Eritrea on the Red Sea. Ara Read more »
The Sahel region of Africa is a 3,860-kilometre arc-like land mass lying to the immediate south of the Sahara Desert and stretching east-west across the breadth of the African continent.
