Pour réussir sa lutte contre-insurrectionnelle, l'armée malienne doit se focaliser sur la fragilité de l'État, ses capacités militaires limitées et les impacts de la crise russo-ukrainienne.
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To win its counterinsurgency war, Mali’s military must focus on the fragility of the state, strained military capabilities, and fallout from Russian-Ukraine crisis.
Governance failure and location of schools around large expanses of unprotected forest zones make school children easy targets for bandits in Nigeria’s north-west.
Les bidonvilles de Bamako, au Mali, se transforment en paysages de troubles prolongés, de conflits civils, d'extrémisme violent et d'insurrection urbaine.
Slums in Bamako, Mali are transforming into landscapes of protracted unrest, civil conflict, violent extremism and urban insurgency.
To defeat armed banditry in its north-west region, Nigeria needs to adopt a new approach to policing.
The Wagner rebellion in Russia has implications for African countries that depend on mercenaries and non-state armed groups for security.
Attacks on electoral materials and election commission officials in the south-east region of Nigeria could have serious implications for the overall success of 2023 presidential election.
Through articles written by academic experts in the course of the year, The Conversation Africa takes a second look at Nigeria in 2022.
Ahead of 2023 general elections, there are increasing concerns that the current spate of violence in Nigeria, if unchecked, could undermine electoral outcomes.
Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.
Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
Cet accord, qui renforce le Maroc face à l’Algérie, a fait naître quelques inquiétudes dans plusieurs pays d’Europe.
It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
