{"id":2714,"date":"2020-10-19T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2020-10-19T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T09:37:01","slug":"updates-and-resources-on-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Updates and Resources on West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Mali<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In exchange for the release of French hostage Sophie Petronin, 200 &#8216;jihadists&#8217; were released. A retired French general expresses his frustration, a view no doubt shared by many senior French army officials.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2020\/10\/13\/plus-de-200-islamistes-relaches-comment-poursuivre-la-lutte-contre-le-terrorisme-au-mali_6055869_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2711\">Negotiations with jihadists: a problematic political solution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Guinea &amp; Ivory Coast<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Online debate organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/\">WATHI Think Tank<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kas.de\/de\/home\">Konrad Adenauer Stiftung<\/a> foundation on elections and political practices in Guinea and Ivory Coast (French language resource).<\/p>\n<p>Watch on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xmeKOHMRqzs&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;utm_source=WATHI+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=80cdc79111-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_16_05_35&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_b2380edbd0-80cdc79111-263929273\"><strong>&#8220;\u00c9lections en Guin\u00e9e et en C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire et pratiques politiques en Afrique de l\u2019Ouest&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali In exchange for the release of French hostage Sophie Petronin, 200 &#8216;jihadists&#8217; were released. A retired French general expresses his frustration, a view no doubt shared by many senior French army officials. Read more on Le Monde &amp; Negotiations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2714\">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":[1],"tags":[423,136,252,661,99,424,72,506,932],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-conflict","tag-elections","tag-france","tag-guinea","tag-ivory-coast","tag-jihadism","tag-mali","tag-military","tag-political-practices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}