29 December, 2020 | Menas Associates, Sahara, Sahel
On 2 January another two French soldiers were killed in Mali, after three were killed in late December at Hombori in the central Mopti Region when their vehicle detonated an improvised explosive device (IED). This latest loss of French military lives will intensify...
23 July, 2020 | Menas Associates, Sahara, Sahel
Following the regime’s lethal gun attack on the 11 July peaceful demonstration, the way in which Mali’s political crisis develops will have serious implications for the entire West African and Sahelian regions. If President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (IBK) is forced to...
29 May, 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...
15 May, 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...
1 May, 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...
