Readers of the Francophone Africa blog may be interested in the newly published Handbook of Francophone Africa (Routledge 2024)

Le Niger annonce une révision de tous les accords militaires signés avec d’autres pays, RFI

Repression, war undermining Burkina Faso government, Institute of Current World Affairs

Apologies. The link to this article was broken in the Update published earlier today:

(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding