{"id":2682,"date":"2020-08-20T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:50:21","slug":"solving-political-crises-in-west-africa-sahel-consensus-rather-than-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Solving political crises in West Africa &#038; Sahel: Consensus rather than compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NIMD Sahel Director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirtjas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirjam Tjassing<\/a> and\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATHI<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YabiGilles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yabi Gilles<\/a> argue if ECOWAS does not go beyond the usual worn-out political recipes \u2013 perceived by marginalised populations as cake-sharing between opportunistic actors \u2013 the chances of ending cycle of political crises plaguing Mali, the Sahel and West Africa are very slim.<\/p>\n<p>Original article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In English on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nimd.org\/mali-crisis-resisting-the-temptation-of-worn-out-political-recipes\/\">NIMD<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>in French in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1018780\/politique\/tribune-crise-au-mali-resister-a-la-tentation-des-recettes-politiques-usees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeune Afrique<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMD Sahel Director Mirjam Tjassing and\u00a0Founder of\u00a0WATHI\u00a0Yabi Gilles argue if ECOWAS does not go beyond the usual worn-out political recipes \u2013 perceived by marginalised populations as cake-sharing between opportunistic actors \u2013 the chances of ending cycle of political crises plaguing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2682\">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],"tags":[918,919,72,920,412,67],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-compromise","tag-consensus","tag-mali","tag-political-crisis","tag-sahel","tag-west-africa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","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=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}