NIJAR Negotiating Peace with Militant Islam in the Sahel: Insights from the NIJAR Project The sight of Al-Qaeda’s flag flying over Mali’s Bamako International Airport after the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attack in late September highlights a stark reality: in ⋙
Sahel A Jihadists’ schism in central Sahel: conflict epilogue or prelude to a new escalation? The war on terror in the central Sahel has not yet reached a strategic breakthrough, as shown by the uninterrupted escalation of violence striking the region since 2015. A closer ⋙
terrorism Lessons from 9/11: the politicization of espionage and the collapse of the US intelligence President Biden recently announced the withdrawal of the 2,500 US troops in Afghanistan, to be completed by 11 September, ending America’s longest war on the 20th anniversary of ⋙
Niger Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in the Sahel, inhuman with humanitarians? On Sunday 9 August, six humanitarian workers of the French NGO ACTED and two Nigeriens accompanying them were killed in an ambush at Kouré, some 60km away from Niger’s ⋙
Debate Education and language: global and local strategies of Sahelian jihadism Growing insecurity in the Sahel and especially in Central Mali and Northern Burkina Faso is characterized by lack of control of the central government over big parts of the country& ⋙
Debate The social roots of 'radicalisation' and 'violent extremism' in Africa Is 'radicalisation' the cause or the effect of violent conflict in Africa? English translation of the presentation given at the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group of the ⋙
