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Published in: Home: FeatureHow the lithium rush in West Africa is harming rural communitiesThe scramble for ‘green economy’ lithium is bringing strain and uncertainty for rural West Africans
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Published in: Home: AnalysisBeyond Syria and Iraq: Islamist paramilitaries gain ground in AfricaWestern focus on Ukraine has eclipsed reporting on escalating Jihadist activity across the Sahel and East Africa
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhile the West focused on Afghanistan, ISIS gained ground in Iraq and beyondFor jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as...
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Published in: HomeViolent Islamism is gaining the upper hand in Afghanistan and AfricaMilitary responses haven’t defeated the Taliban and won’t stop ISIS, but the West refuses to address the root causes...
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Published in: HomeCounter-insurgency: the failed conflict resolution strategy that the West won’t let dieIn Mali, the controversial military tactic has not stemmed the conflict. Is it time for a moratorium on its use?
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Published in: TransformationTo build peace we have to ask why people go to warNew findings from Mali underline the failure of hard security approaches to conflict-resolution.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Watching the watchers: the G5 Sahel Force has a human rights problemIf history is a lesson, without a robust human rights framework, international missions are more likely to add to,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Sahel: north-west Africa’s security weakest linkIn addition to terrorism, the Sahel faces a host of thorny intertwined issues, which if not dealt with could plunge...
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Published in: HomeRedefining the poor as “terrorists”Most so-called “terrorist” activity is a by-product of neoliberalism’s on-going crisis and its marginalisation of a...
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Published in: 50.50Secularism at risk in Sub-Saharan secular states: the challenges for Senegal and MaliSecularism is being challenged in several Sub-Saharan African states which have long guarded it as a principle of...
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Published in: 50.50La laïcité à l’épreuve dans les États laïques d’Afrique au Sud du Sahara : Les défis pour le Sénégal et le Mali
La laïcité est mise à l’épreuve dans plusieurs États d’Afrique subsaharienne qui l’ont gardé comme principe de...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFeeble captain in troubled waters: Algeria’s foreign relations after Bouteflika’s re-electionThe current triple crisis also constitutes a chance for Algeria. More than ever it becomes clear that the country is...
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Published in: openSecurityMali: a colonel in his labyrinthWestern states have reflexively diagnosed the continuing violence and lawlessness in Mali's fragmented north to the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe US military's new normal in AfricaEvery new African nightmare turns out to be another opening for US military involvement.
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Published in: openSecurityBack to the future: America's new model for expeditionary warfareIn a world of supposed cutbacks, the US military continues to quietly move into Africa in a distinctly...
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Published in: HomeOn western military interventionism
Things are not as clear cut as one would like to believe: like war and peace, black and white, good or evil. As in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - November 13, 2013Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrance’s unfinished business in Mali
Terrorism, extremism, and independence were, and remain, marginal nuisances nibbling on the Malian political and...
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Published in: openSecurityMale war, male peace
A survey of on-going peace processes confirms mere lip service is still being paid to women’s inclusion and...
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Published in: HomeA chronology of crisis in the Sahel
Awareness has not necessarily translated into more investment in good governance or poverty-reduction programmes....
