26 July, 2021 | Menas Associates, Niger, Sahara, Sahel
The most immediate change we are seeing in the Sahel is a military and political shift in the centre of gravity from Mali to Niger with the latter’s new President, Mohamed Bazoum, beginning to emerge as the Sahel’s new strongman. With Chad’s Idriss Déby now dead, and...
24 September, 2020 | Menas Associates, Niger, Sahara
In the past month there have been several reports from reliable sources connected to Agades’ Aïr Info news-site — and confirmed by Menas Associates’ own sources in the Agades region — that groups of armed men, along with some 20 vehicles, have been seen at locations...
31 March, 2020 | Menas Associates, Niger, Sahara
There is an extraordinary parallel between Niger’s current defence ministry corruption scandal and those in Mali which led to the 2012 coup d’état. In Mali the army was quickly put to flight by the Tuareg rebels and Islamists because it was ill equipped and, in...
