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 ⋙
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 ⋙
