Update 5 February 2024

ECOWAS communiqué on withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS, ECOWAS

How a mutiny became a(nother) coup: The politics of counterinsurgency and international military partnerships in Niger, African Affairs

Niger: les autorités expulsent des membres de la mission européenne EUCAP SAHEL, Aïr Info

ECOWAS communiqué regarding postponement of Senegal’s presidential elections, ECOWAS

Lake Chad states quietly mull Niamey’s return to counter-insurgent force, Africa Intelligence

The trials of being neighbourly in Europe and West Africa, ECDPM

Update 22 January 2024

El-Ghassim Wane reflects on MINUSMA’s withdrawal from Mali, UN Peacekeeping

Consolidation de la paix en Afrique de l’Ouest – Conseil de sécurité des Nations-Unies: Lori-Anne Benoni, Regional Director, Institute of Security Studies (West Africa), discusses the work she and her colleagues are doing on stabilisation and peacebuilding in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin (starts 20 minutes in)

Quelle coopération militaire avec l’Afrique ? Dossier pas encore tranché par l’Elysée, L’Opinion

African Coups, European Impacts?, Brubble podcasts