{"id":3378,"date":"2025-11-17T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:43:16","slug":"update-17-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"Update 17 November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali faces worsening jihadist violence amid fears of regional spillover, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20251109-mali-faces-worsening-jihadist-violence-amid-fears-of-regional-spillover\">France24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bamako under siege: why Mali\u2019s army is struggling to break the jihadist blockade of the capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/bamako-under-siege-why-malis-army-is-struggling-to-break-the-jihadist-blockade-of-the-capital-268521\">The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mali: Bamako peut-il tomber aux mains du JNIM?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zgweFjA4v4w\">France24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Niger Decriminalization Reshapes Human Smuggling but Sahel Upheaval and Border Closures Prevent Return to pre-2015 Levels, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alice-Fereday-Niger-Decriminalization-reshapes-human-Smuggling-but-Sahel-upheaval-and-border-closures-prevent-return-to-pre-2015-levels-GI-TOC-November-2025.pdf\">Global Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What France owes to Niger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/november\/what-france-owes-to-niger\">London Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Western States Withdraw, Turkey Aims to Fill a Vacuum in the Sahel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/turkey-sahel-mali-niger\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>En C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, la \u00ab Fran\u00e7afrique \u00bb s\u00e9vit encore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2025\/10\/PIGEAUD\/68818\">Le Monde diplomatique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>African electoral coups should be treated as such, coups, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdpm.org\/work\/african-electoral-coups-should-be-treated-such-coups\">ECDPM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali faces worsening jihadist violence amid fears of regional spillover, France24 Bamako under siege: why Mali\u2019s army is struggling to break the jihadist blockade of the capital, The Conversation Mali: Bamako peut-il tomber aux mains du JNIM?, France24 Niger Decriminalization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}