{"id":2614,"date":"2020-06-01T19:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2020-06-01T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:21:46","slug":"2614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"Update on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/acleddata.com\/2020\/05\/20\/state-atrocities-in-the-sahel-the-impetus-for-counter-insurgency-results-is-fueling-government-attacks-on-civilians\/\">Western Sahel: the push for counter-insurgency results is fuelling attacks on civilians, according to a new report<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>After eight years of conflict in the Sahel, the international community remains primarily focused on the two main jihadi militant groups driving the sub-regional insurgency in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger: the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jama\u2019at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS). The reality on the ground is far more complex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acleddata.com\/2020\/05\/20\/state-atrocities-in-the-sahel-the-impetus-for-counter-insurgency-results-is-fueling-government-attacks-on-civilians\/\">ACLED<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c-page-hero__title [ u-fs36 u-fs50@l u-lh1 u-wbbw ]\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/chad\/chads-problems-mount-what-role-civil-society\">As Chad\u2019s Problems Mount, What Role for Civil Society?<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>With its people increasingly frustrated by elite impunity, civil society organisations are seeking to mobilise into a coherent protest movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/chad\/chads-problems-mount-what-role-civil-society\">ACLED<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"w-blogpost-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/burkina-faso-thinking-security-out-of-informality\/\">Burkina Faso: Thinking Security Out of Informality<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Oswald Padonou argues that the introduction of military service or a national civic service could help address the growing problem of insecurity in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/burkina-faso-thinking-security-out-of-informality\/\">WATHI<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Sahel: the push for counter-insurgency results is fuelling attacks on civilians, according to a new report After eight years of conflict in the Sahel, the international community remains primarily focused on the two main jihadi militant groups driving the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,2],"tags":[414,380,139,703,908,909,72,416,412,408],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","tag-burkina-faso","tag-chad","tag-civil-society","tag-insurgency","tag-isgs","tag-jnim","tag-mali","tag-niger","tag-sahel","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}