May 29, 2019 | Menas Associates, Sahara, Sahel
Jihadist groups are increasingly threatening the Gulf of Guinea (source: Bloomberg) Counter-terrorist operations continue to grip much of the Sahel, namely Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso. But jihadist groups are now beginning to move southwards and gain ground in...
May 15, 2019 | Menas Associates, Sahel
Jeremy Keenan, Menas’ Sahel expert, recently spoke at the ISOA-SCEG Stabilization and Security Conference on the political and security risks in the Sahel. From Mauritania to Sudan, Algeria to Burkina Faso, the vast Sahel covers an area that is almost as large...
May 1, 2019 | Mali, Menas Associates, Sahel
Inter communal attacks in the Mopti Region and the lack of governance and security have led to hundreds of deaths in the last year alone The massacre of at least 160 Peul (Fulani) in the village of Ogossagou in the southern Mopti Region in late March constituted the...
