Niger

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 ⋙

Libya

Human Transit in the Central Mediterranean: Insights and Future Work from the SHUT-MED PRIN Project

Human mobility across the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) is once again on the rise, and this phenomenon has significant political (securitization) and theoretical (securitization theory) implications. The project titled " ⋙

Turkey

Diplomacy, legacies and weapons: How is Turkish foreign policy towards Africa changing

by Akram Kharief* Turkey’s engagement in Africa has experienced a significant change in the last decade, most notably in North Africa. Turkey features a more assertive presence across the ⋙

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 ⋙

European Union

Pivoting Stabilisation in the Sahel: competing visions and implementation checkpoints

EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell has recently announced greater transparency from (and better conditionality with) Sahelian leaders following a visit to the region in April. This follows intentions for ⋙

ERIS

New article on JISB: Drug Smuggling and the Stability of Fragile States. The Diverging Trajectories of Mali and Niger

What is the impact of smuggling on political ordering and stability in fragile states? The article I’ve been working on with @franxstrax for the past two years is now out in @JISBjournal, focusing on #Mali and #Niger. Article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ ⋙

Sahel

The role of the EU in preventing, countering violent extremism in the Sahel: achievements and limitations

What is the role of the EU in the fields of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Sahel? Following the adoption of the EU Sahel Strategy in ⋙

ERIS

Contrecarrer l’Extrémisme Violent au Sahel: le Rôle de l’UE en Discussion

Café débat le 14 Janvier 2021, 16h00 - 18h00 (UTC +1 Rome, Bruxelles, Niamey) 15h00-17h00 (UTC Bamako, Dakar), en ligne su Webex Lien d’inscription Suite à l’adoption de la stratégie antiterroriste de l'Union Européenne, la lutte contre l'extrémisme ⋙

refugees

Pushbacks, pullbacks, backscattering: evolving forms of digital refoulement at the EU borders

After the so-called 2015 “refugees’ crisis”, the European Union and its Member States have given new impetus to the externalisation in border management and outsourcing of migration policies, accelerating a ⋙

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 ⋙

Field

Displacement in the Time of Corona: Life fragments of IDPs in Mali and Niger, among intercommunal violence and armed groups proliferation

In the West, much is being written about the spread of the coronavirus. During the last months, we visited refugees and IDPs camps in Mali and Niger to witness the ⋙

Debate

Contrasting agendas: EU’s migration governance vs. West African governments’ priorities

In the aftermath of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the EU should take into consideration what the real interests of their partners in West Africa and the Sahel are and accept ⋙

Field

Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger

In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to ⋙

Niger

Drone warfare in Niger

By Dominic James Stanley, Ginevra Fontana, and Angelantonio Duraccio The death of four American and five Nigerien soldiers in north-western Niger, along with France seeking authorisation to arm its remotely ⋙

election

Niger's Game of Thrones

The high stakes of the 2016 presidential elections. “Me against my brother; but me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against our neighbours; and ⋙