The 4th Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans will be taking place online 28 June – 2 July, with panels including Islam and activism in North-West Africa, post-2011 sociopolitical upheavals through a gender lens, and language education and identities in Morocco and Algeria. Registration is free. More info here.

The Funambulist have made their back issues available, including two articles on the inter-related history of Algeria and Palestine. Building on her exhibition Discrete Violence: Architecture the French War in Algeria, Samia Henni discusses landscapes of colonial violence in Palestine and Algeria with Mostafa Minawi. In the second article, Lina Soualem relates how her encounter with Yannis Arab’s research on Palestine’s Algerians / Algeria’s Palestinians stroke a personal chord. Yannis Arab’s talk is available here.

The Arab Uprisings Project is a continually updated website with new resources, and event recordings made available monthly. This is a fantastic resources if you’re teaching or researching North Africa, or political engagement more widely.

Similarly, Jadaliyya‘s list of essential readings on uprisings, popular protests, and resistance, although focused on the MENA, will also be relevant for thinking about politics south of the Sahara.

Maghreb Maghrek‘s latest issue focuses on the Hirak and “street politics” in Algeria.

News

« L’accord d’Alger entre Bamako et les rebelles armés a créé plus de problèmes qu’il n’en a réglés » – Le Monde

Chad’s Ongoing Instability, the Legacy of Idriss Déby – Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Au Niger, plus de 10 000 déplacés en 48 heures à cause des attaques djihadistes – Le Monde

The Sahel: Time for the EU to show tough love – The Africa Report

A letter from African intellectuals on the Sahel crisis – Al Jazeera

UE : aide humanitaire de 210 millions € pour le Sahel et l’Afrique centrale – Sahel Intelligence

Opération Barkhane : sur le front avec les soldats français au Sahel – Les Echos

Réunion du G5 Sahel en marge du sommet de Paris sur le financement des économies africaines – La Tribune

Sahel, Emmanuel Macron ouvre la porte d’une négociation avec les djihadistes – Mondafrique

Fresh attacks, dire conditions plague Africa’s Sahel, Security Council hears – UN News

Mali to form new ‘broad-based’ transitional government – Al Jazeera

Rethinking Francophone Africa