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Published in: HomeNigeria, the Boko Haram riskAbuja's response to Boko Haram's insurgency is flawed and self-defeating. Without a change of policy, Nigeria will...
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Published in: openSecurityMali's reconciliation attempt
With a UN peacekeeping force soon to be deployed to Mali, what are the prospects for the recently created Dialogue...
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Published in: HomeAQIM: Maghreb to Mali, and back
The crisis in Mali highlights the distinctive character and trajectory of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. A group...
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Published in: openSecurityThe desert's fertile soil: threats of instability still growing in the north
Claims of a French victory in Mali assume that groups aimed at an Islamic state. But western intervention in another...
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Published in: HomeThe Mali effect
Many evolving disputes in north Africa and the Sahara fuse religious language and political impulse to powerful...
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Published in: HomeMali, and remote-control war
The Afghan model of future war based on armed-drones and special-forces is being refined in Mali. But the western...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorFebruary 17 is the anniversary of the Day of Rage in Benghazi which kicked off the Libyan Revolution in 2011. But...
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Published in: HomeEurope needs principles for intervention
Why is Denmark involved in Mali? European leaders should clarify when, why and how to participate in military...
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Published in: openSecurityConflict at the EU's southern borders: the Sahel crisis
Gradually, EU systems of governance have extended into the southern Mediterranean, linking dynamics in the Sahel...
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Published in: HomeMali, war after war
The combination of western advance and rebel retreat in northern Mali echoes the initial phase of the anti-Taliban...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali: another front in the “Global War on Terror”?What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the...
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Published in: HomeMali, and the al-Qaida trap
A decade ago, western leaders' excessive reaction and inflated rhetoric served to amplify rather than diminish the...
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Published in: HomeAh la Françafrique!The present crisis raises a number of crucial questions, for France, Mali, the EU and our globalised world.
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali and beyond
The seizure of an international gas-plant in Algeria follows closely the escalation of conflict in Mali. The...
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Published in: HomeMali, dynamic of war
The French-led military intervention in Mali both accelerates the war in the west African country and transforms its...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida, idea in motion
The United States's "remote control" campaign against Islamist targets is intensifying. But behind the headlines,...
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Published in: HomeQatar intervening in northern Mali?
If the presence of Qatar in Mali is confirmed, it is difficult to establish how the emirate is trying to change the...
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Published in: HomeMali, preparing for war
Mali's army will be unable to dislodge the Islamist hold on the country's north, even with the help of fellow west...
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Published in: HomeMali, and the next war
The growing prospect of western-backed military intervention to reverse the spread of Islamism in west Africa is...
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Published in: HomeSyria, Mali, Nigeria: war's paralysis
The conflict in Syria leaves western powers with no good choices, and their agony is intensified by Islamist...
