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Macron announces the end of France’s anti-Islamist Operation Barkhane in the Sahel – France24

Macron: Barkhane mission ending, French presence to stay in Sahel – Al Jazeera

Macron announces end of France’s anti-terror Operation Barkhane in Africa’s Sahel region – CNN

Les États-Unis adressent un message de soutien fort à la France au Sahel – RFI

Au Sahel, il faut replacer la protection des civils au cœur de la réponse à la crise – Mediapart

Instability in the Sahel: how a jihadi gold rush is fuelling violence in Africa – Financial Times

Terrorism Spreading ‘Unabated’ Across Africa, Warns US Commander – VOANews

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.

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