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The Rise of the Gangsta MilitariatThe latest generation of African coupists offers definitive proof that the armed forces are the greatest victims of military rule.
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UN Reports Sexual Violence in Mali; Russian Wagner Group ImplicatedWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers August 5 to August 11.
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What Is Russia’s Wagner Group Doing in Africa?Russia’s Wagner Group has intervened in the affairs of several African countries, providing military and security support while expanding Moscow’s influence across the continent.
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Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel
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The African countries of the Sahel stand to be among the most affected by climate change. To help mitigate its effects, Beza Tesfaye argues that the United States should partner with civil society groups and expand climate adaptation and financing efforts. -
Mali’s Junta Sees Enemies EverywhereBlaming external actors for the country’s woes accomplishes little for the Malian people.
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United States Names Five African Jihadis as Specially Designated Global TerroristsThe practical consequences of the U.S. Department of State adding five terrorist leaders operating in Africa to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists is likely to be limited.
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French President Macron Expands on Sahel Drawdown PlanFrench President Emmanuel Macron's decision to end Operation Barkhane, the French mission to fight jihadism in the Sahel, bears some resemblance to the ongoing removal of American troops from Afghanistan.
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Belarus’s Plane Diversion, Mali’s ‘Coup Within a Coup,’ and MoreBelarus faces global condemnation after grounding an airplane to arrest a dissident journalist; West Africa braces for the fallout from Mali’s second coup in nine months; and the United States marks Memorial Day and one hundred years since the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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French Journalist Kidnapped in the SahelIn April, Olivier Dubois, an experienced French journalist, was kidnapped in Gao, a Malian city on the Niger River. Though his disappearance was soon known by the Malian and French authorities, and b…
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Multiple Jihadi Insurgencies, Cooperating With Bandits, Appear to be Converging in the SahelOn March 17, around one hundred assailants, traveling on motorcycles and pickup trucks, killed thirty-three soldiers and wounded an additional fourteen in an attack near Tessit in central Mali. Peace…
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Macron Signals Upcoming Reduction of French Military Presence in the SahelOn January 19, French President Emmanuel Macron said that recent successes against jihadis and the pledge of additional EU troops makes it possible to "adjust" French military operations in the weste…
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United Kingdom Sends Troops to MaliBoris Johnson’s government is deploying three hundred British troops to the UN peacekeeping force MINUSMA in Mali. They will join some fourteen thousand other troops from fifty-six countries. The Bri…
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EU Task Force Takuba in MaliAs a jihadi insurgency spreads across the Sahel, EU countries are responding to France's call for increased troop deployments in the region. A Franco-Estonian elite unit, styled Task Force Takuba, ha…
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Mali's Amadou Touré and the Conundrum of African LeadershipAmadou Touré, coup maker, coup victim, military ruler, and eventually civilian chief of state in Mali, died last week in Istanbul at the age of seventy-two. Touré dominated Mali's governance for some…