{"id":3381,"date":"2025-12-01T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:42:39","slug":"update-1-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Update 1 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second state. On the regime of Iyad Ag-Ghali, <a href=\"https:\/\/samuelbattistoli.substack.com\/p\/the-second-state\">The Radical Cape Reading Room<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Togo-Russie: le partenariat militaire qui inqui\u00e8te Paris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/afrique\/togo-russie-le-partenariat-militaire-qui-inquiete-paris-19-11-2025-2603494_3826.php\">Le Point<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Collapse of Western Power in Francophone Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/the-collapse-of-western-power-in-francophone-africa\/\">Stanford Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political violence and transport infrastructure in West Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10246029.2025.2502017\">African Security Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jihadisme sahelien: les le\u00e7ons oubli\u00e9es du Mali et l\u2019urgence d\u2019une r\u00e9silience r\u00e9gionale, <a href=\"Jihadisme%20sahelien%20:%20les%20le\u00e7ons%20oubli\u00e9es%20du%20Mali%20et%20l\u2019urgence%20d\u2019une%20r\u00e9silience%20r\u00e9gionale\">Timbuktu Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sahel on fire: Mali\u2019s crisis of legitimacy and limits of military solutions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/sahel-on-fire-malis-crisis-of-legitimacy-and-limits-of-military-solutions\">Daily Sabah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JNIM Attacks in Western Mali Reshape Sahel Conflict, <a href=\"https:\/\/africacenter.org\/spotlight\/jnim-attacks-western-mali-sahel\/\">Africa Center for Strategic Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Au Mali, le pouvoir est aux abois face au blocus des djihadistes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapart.fr\/journal\/international\/201125\/au-mali-le-pouvoir-est-aux-abois-face-au-blocus-des-djihadistes\">M\u00e9diapart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Mali about to fall to al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM?, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/6\/is-mali-about-to-fall-to-al-qaeda-affiliate-jnim\">Al-Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Global Gateway&#8217;s missing ingredient: Adding peace to the mix, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecdpm.org\/work\/global-gateways-missing-ingredient-adding-peace-mix\">ECDPM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second state. On the regime of Iyad Ag-Ghali, The Radical Cape Reading Room Togo-Russie: le partenariat militaire qui inqui\u00e8te Paris, Le Point The Collapse of Western Power in Francophone Africa, Stanford Review Political violence and transport infrastructure in West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3381\">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-3381","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\/3381","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=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}