{"id":2348,"date":"2019-09-10T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:35:53","slug":"dossier-sahel-instability-violent-extremism-and-foreign-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"Dossier Sahel: Instability, Violent Extremism and Foreign Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Northwestern Sahel represents one of the most unstable areas<\/strong> in sub-Saharan Africa. Seven years after the outbreak of the conflict in Mali, violent extremism has spread across the region, together with community conflicts over the access to natural resources<\/strong> and inter-ethnic violence. Trans-border activities of non-state armed actors \u2013 insurgents, jihadist groups and ethnic-based militias \u2013 as well as illicit trafficking networks feed the regional insecurity. These dynamics have boosted military and political intervention<\/strong> of Western actors and the development of multilateral initiatives across Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad. What are the main drivers of the instability affecting the Sahelian states? To what extent is the current security situation in the Sahel deteriorating? And what are the challenges ahead for states and international actors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mauritania: The New Strongman in Nouakchott<\/a> C\u00e9dric Jourde<\/a> University of Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Formidable Challenges to Peace in Mali<\/a> Edoardo Baldaro<\/a> Universit\u00e0 di Napoli “L’Orientale”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Current State of Insecurity in Burkina Faso<\/a> Daniel Eizenga<\/a> Africa Center for Strategic Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niger: Has Securitisation Stopped Traffickers?<\/a> Alexandre Bish<\/a> Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chad: France\u2019s Role and Political Instability<\/a> Tony Chafer<\/a> University of Portsmouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Libya: Haftar\u2019s \u2018Divide and Rule\u2019 Plans on the Edge of the Sahel<\/a> Rebecca Murray<\/a> Freelance journalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Providing Security in the Sahel: A \u2018Traffic Jam\u2019 of Military Interventions<\/a> <\/a>Signe M. Cold-Ravnkilde<\/a> Danish Institute for International Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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G5 Sahel: The Joint Struggle for Regional Stability<\/a> Camillo Casola<\/a> ISPI <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northwestern Sahel represents one of the most unstable areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Seven years after the outbreak of the conflict in Mali, violent extremism has spread across the region, together with community conflicts over the access to natural resources and inter-ethnic violence. Trans-border activities … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,414,380,824,749,72,415,412,406,515],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-africa","tag-burkina-faso","tag-chad","tag-foreign-actors","tag-instability","tag-mali","tag-mauritania","tag-sahel","tag-terrorism","tag-violent-extremism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}