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Given its strength and capabilities, the extremist group JNIM poses an existential threat to Nigeria.
Tax avoidance and profit-shifting are leaving African countries without the resources they need to meet their development goals.
Decades of neglect, corruption and state brutality have allowed armed group JNIM to gain the support of Mali’s marginalised communities.
Bamako faces an uncertain future.
The blockade of southern Mali is designed to weaken the military government, incite the public and possibly consolidate control.
While illegal takeovers of state have declined globally, Africa has now seen at least 10 successful coups since 2020.
Appropriate interventions are needed to increase the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa.
The elimination of offices within Homeland Security and the State Department may force US counterterrorism efforts to rely on a solely military approach, which has proven ineffective.
Women with disabilities can’t always make informed reproductive choices, and this can make them even more vulnerable.
Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.
Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
There is fierce competition for access to roads in conflict zones
Togo has long pursued a pragmatic and independent foreign policy that serves its national interests.
Dismantling one of the world’s deadliest terror group’s access to illicit economies is key to countering its activities.
A new publication sheds light on the plants of Burkina Faso and Mali.
Mali is in a period of political uncertainty.
Despite its current crisis, Ecowas can look back on successes in integration, peace and security, and good governance.
Africa needs a new strategy to engage with the more complex global order.
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
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Director of Research, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, University of Maryland
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Lecturer-researcher, Université des sciences juridiques et politiques de Bamako
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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Nonresident Research Fellow, Rice University
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Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Associate Professor in Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Conflict Studies, School of Conflict Studies, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
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Head of Data & Analytics and Senior Researcher for the Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam
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Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Security Assessment in North Africa project at the Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Affiliate Lecturer, King's College London