Selon Nina Wilén, la crise au sein de l'armée nigérienne risque d’offrir un avantage stratégique aux groupes djihadistes, grands bénéficiaires du chaos sécuritaire.

Selon Nina Wilén, la crise au sein de l'armée nigérienne risque d’offrir un avantage stratégique aux groupes djihadistes, grands bénéficiaires du chaos sécuritaire.

Au Niger, le régime du général Tiani a été rudement secoué samedi 29 août par la rébellion de plusieurs unités militaires qui ont tenu l'aéroport de Niamey et ont tenté de s'emparer du palais présiden...

A new EU approach to the Sahel region

On the 25th of April, coordinated attacks across several major cities with military caserns in Mali were perpetrated by the largest Jihadist group in the region: Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin [...

Insurgents recaptured a Malian town that had become a symbol of Russia’s promise to deliver security where Western forces had failed.

Sky News speaks to President Ibrahim Traoré, the young leader who is being hailed across Africa as an "anti-imperialist revolutionary".

It has been more than a decade since the UN last authorized a multidimensional peacekeeping in Africa, in spite of the continent experiencing the highest number of state-based conflicts in […]

From 9 March 2026 the freely available SIPRI Arms Transfers Database includes updated data on transfers of major arms for 1950–2025. Based on the new data, this fact sheet presents key trends in arms ...

Sur les près de 5.600 morts attribués au terrorisme dans le monde en 2025, près de la moitié ont été recensés au Sahel.

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The United States said Monday that it was imposing sanctions on Rwanda's military, taking action against a longtime partner it accused of violating a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of Cong...

How African nations fit into the Trump administration’s plans to combat China.

China’s efforts to integrate Africa into its global security architectures risk Africa’s longstanding preference to avoid being pulled into competing geopolitical camps.

Previously distinct conflicts in the Sahel and coastal West Africa are merging into a single, interconnected one that will likely become a key arena of militant competition.

Abstract Patriarchal norms across West Africa curtail women’s education and employment opportunities, with Niger standing as an extreme example. However, a small minority of Nigerien women succeed in ...

The pattern of military cooperation in exchange for resources that originated in the Central African Republic and later spread to the Sahel is growing

President repeats his ambition of taking Danish territory in front of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland

What can reverse democratic decline?

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

"[Many European trainers] really felt disillusioned with what they were supposed to do and what they actually ended up doing."

Guinea's junta leader Mamady Doumbouya will be sworn in as president on January 17 following his electoral victory last month, the presidency announced Tuesday on social media.

Another uplifting Rant! Happy Friday!

Heading straight toward a cliff

Over nearly four years of war in Ukraine, Russian veterans of the so-called “special military operation” returning from the front have killed or injured more than 1,000 people, according to a joint in...

Après près de deux mois de blocus économique imposé par le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, JNIM), affilié à Al-Qaïda, le régime militaire malien est...

The Gulf of Guinea has drawn attention from Western states in recent years due both to increasing spillover of violent extremism from the Sahel and because of Sahelian military juntas’ […]