{"id":3412,"date":"2026-02-02T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:10:47","slug":"update-2-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"Update 2 February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17502977.2023.2278268\">Journal of Intervention &amp; Statebuilding<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire: H\u00e9g\u00e9monie du parti au pouvoir et continuit\u00e9 de l\u2019action publique, <a href=\"https:\/\/timbuktu-institute.org\/index.php\/toutes-l-actualites\/item\/1328-cote-d-ivoire-hegemonie-du-parti-au-pouvoir-et-continuite-de-l-action-publique\">Timbuktu Institute<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>D\u00e9claration des jeunes au forum r\u00e9gional de la Jeunesse, <a href=\"https:\/\/goreeinstitut.org\/publication\/declaration-des-jeunes-au-forum-regional-de-la-jeunesse-niger-niamey-2025\/\">Gor\u00e9e Institute<\/a><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"ItemMetaInfo\">Au Gabon, l\u2019\u00e9chec de la prison \u00ab<small class=\"fine d-inline\">\u00a0<\/small>\u00e0 l\u2019occidentale<small class=\"fine d-inline\">\u00a0<\/small>\u00bb, <a href=\"https:\/\/afriquexxi.info\/Au-Gabon-l-echec-de-la-prison-a-l-occidentale\">Afrique XXI<\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"ItemMetaInfo\">From summits to substance: Europe\u2019s chance to meet Africa on its terms, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/article\/from-summits-to-substance-europes-chance-to-meet-africa-on-its-terms\/\">European Council on Foreign Relations<\/a><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div>Adapting Benin\u2019s Battle with Violent Militant Groups, <a href=\"https:\/\/africacenter.org\/publication\/asb46en-benin-battle-militant-groups\/\">Africa Center for Strategic Studies<\/a>\r\n<article id=\"post-1018640\" class=\"page post-1018640 publication type-publication status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry publication-type-africa-security-brief in_focus-countering-violent-extremism-in-africa in_focus-region-in-focus in_focus-sahel in_focus-topic-in-focus\"><\/article>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Dis)utilities of Force in a Postcolonial Context: Explaining the Strategic Failure of the French-Led Intervention in Mali, Journal of Intervention &amp; Statebuilding C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire: H\u00e9g\u00e9monie du parti au pouvoir et continuit\u00e9 de l\u2019action publique, Timbuktu Institute D\u00e9claration des jeunes au &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=3412\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","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\/3412","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=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}