{"id":3405,"date":"2026-01-05T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:44:04","slug":"update-5-january-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"Update 5 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Guinea became a gateway for Russian weapons to reach the Sahel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20250620-guinea-conakry-a-gateway-for-russian-weapons-in-the-sahel\">RFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saied\u2019s \u2018Dictatorship\u2019 Pushes Tunisia to Its Breaking Point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/tunisia-saied-protests-democracy\/\">WPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kidnapping crisis in West Africa shifts from foreign to local targets, new research shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/theafricanmirror.africa\/news\/kidnapping-crisis-in-west-africa-shifts-from-foreign-to-local-targets-new-research-shows\/\">The African Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Au Mali, la crise se joue sur le terrain de l&#8217;information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wathi.org\/laboratoire\/tribune\/au-mali-la-crise-se-joue-sur-le-terrain-de-linformation\/\">WATHI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cameroon: Prominent Opposition Leader Dies in Custody, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/12\/03\/cameroon-prominent-opposition-leader-dies-in-custody\">Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why the Sahel\u2019s Violence Is More Than a Local Problem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfaremedia.org\/article\/why-the-sahel-s-violence-is-more-than-a-local-problem\">Lawfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, le tonton d\u2019Am\u00e9rique pl\u00e9biscit\u00e9 par les n\u00e9osouverainistes en Afrique, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/idees-et-debats\/donald-trump-le-tonton-damerique-plebiscite-par-les-neosouverainistes-en-afrique-20241119_HLWDHC72GNB5LFPOWBHEQSHZIY\/\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Guinea became a gateway for Russian weapons to reach the Sahel, RFI Saied\u2019s \u2018Dictatorship\u2019 Pushes Tunisia to Its Breaking Point, WPR Kidnapping crisis in West Africa shifts from foreign to local targets, new research shows, The African Mirror Au &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3405\">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-3405","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\/3405","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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}