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The political will displayed by the Sahel member countries of the G5 Task Force appears to be out of step with the actual capabilities of their armies.
Resolving jihadist conflicts in the Sahel requires treating jihadists not as terrorists only but also as political actors who seek to provide an alternative form of governance to the status quo.
Africa’s Great Green Wall must immediately speed up to meet the needs of people along the edges of the Sahara Desert.
Mali’s state decay must be halted before it collapses: here are five areas that need attention.
French policymakers understand that sharing the burdens of military operations with global partners can help boost flagging support at home.
Islamic State West Africa Province appears to be consolidating its dominance in the region. This means Nigeria and other countries in the Sahel region have a lot more to be worried about.
Déby’s legacy is one of violent beginnings and fake democratic shows
Advanced techniques allowed our research team to build an open database of billions of individual trees and challenge some common perceptions about vegetation in arid and semi-arid zones.
Research shows that radio and mobile technologies can support a swift and sensitive response to educational disruption.
Descent-based slavery – when a slave status is ascribed to a person based on their alleged ancestry – continues to exist in Mali.
The EU has already poured billions of euros into its assistance programs for the Sahel countries. The fundamental principles of this aid need to be rethought if it is to be truly effective.
Attacks on schools and children evoke a strong emotional response, which is a definitive goal of terrorist groups.
More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
Leaders’ efforts to end conflict have been ineffective. Working through regional economic communities might be part of a better approach.
The composer, performer and poet was an artistic pioneer of lasting and distinctive gifts, and bottomless stamina. He gave us over 70 years of high-octane Somali musical mastery.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Local communities only see “crime” and “banditry” when it comes to religious-based Jihadism.
It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
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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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Doctoral candidate, Regent University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Geography, University of Florida
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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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Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at University of Oxford, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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President, Dickinson College
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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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Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
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Panitza Memorial Endowed Executive Director, Center for Information, Democracy and Citizenship at the American University in Bulgaria
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Lecturer-researcher, Université des sciences juridiques et politiques de Bamako