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  • West Africa
    Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel
    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.
    Report by Beza Tesfaye November 9, 2022 Center for Preventive Action
  • Mali
    Mali’s Junta Sees Enemies Everywhere
    Blaming external actors for the country’s woes accomplishes little for the Malian people.
    Blog Post by Michelle Gavin September 29, 2022 Africa in Transition
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    United States Names Five African Jihadis as Specially Designated Global Terrorists
    The 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.
    Blog Post by John Campbell August 10, 2021 Africa in Transition
  • West Africa
    French President Macron Expands on Sahel Drawdown Plan
    French 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.
    Blog Post by John Campbell July 14, 2021 Africa in Transition
  • Belarus
    Belarus’s Plane Diversion, Mali’s ‘Coup Within a Coup,’ and More
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    Belarus 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.
    Podcast with James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon May 27, 2021 The World Next Week
  • Mali
    French Journalist Kidnapped in the Sahel
    In 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell May 11, 2021 Africa in Transition
  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism
    Multiple Jihadi Insurgencies, Cooperating With Bandits, Appear to be Converging in the Sahel
    On 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell and Nolan Quinn March 23, 2021 Africa in Transition
  • France
    Macron Signals Upcoming Reduction of French Military Presence in the Sahel
    On 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell January 28, 2021 Africa in Transition
  • Mali
    United Kingdom Sends Troops to Mali
    Boris 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell December 9, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Peacekeeping
    EU Task Force Takuba in Mali
    As 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell December 8, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Mali
    Mali's Amadou Touré and the Conundrum of African Leadership
    Amadou 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…
    Blog Post by John Campbell November 20, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Local and Traditional Leadership
    Military Consolidates its Hold on Mali's Interim Government
    On October 5, Mali's interim president, retired colonel Bah Ndaw, announced his cabinet. As is frequent in West Africa, it is large, with twenty-five members. It includes civilians from the country's…
    Blog Post by John Campbell October 7, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Mali
    France Insists on Mali's Return to Civilian Rule
    French President Emmanuel Macron, in a September 22 UN General Assembly (UNGA) speech, made continued French military involvement contingent upon Mali's restoration of civilian rule. He was blunt: "T…
    Blog Post by John Campbell September 24, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Local and Traditional Leadership
    Mali Update: Stand-Off
    On September 21, the military junta that overthrew the Mali government of President Ibrahim Keita announced a transitional government. It is headed by retired Colonel Bah N'Daw, with junta leader Col…
    Blog Post by John Campbell September 22, 2020 Africa in Transition
  • Local and Traditional Leadership
    Post-Coup Prospects for Democracy in Mali
    When Mali’s summer of discontent culminated in a coup on August 18, media coverage was soon full of images of celebrating citizens, and opposition leaders expressed approval of the military takeover…
    Blog Post by Michelle Gavin August 27, 2020 Africa in Transition
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