Sahel

The United Nations Population Fund publishes "State of the World Population 2021" on Wednesday 14 April. With the title this year My body belongs to me, and the report is devoted for the first time to the power and freedom that women have at their disposal over their bodies, without coercion or violence, in different parts of the world, and especially in Africa.…

The Citizen Coalition for the Sahel presented its first report on Tuesday (April 13), "Sahel, what needs to change". Objective: to make an assessment of the failure of the anti-terrorist policy pursued for eight years now and to put the protection of civilians back to the core of the strategy. The numbers speak for themselves.…

It is an unrivaled coalition of almost 50 Sahelian, West African and international organizations that will speak today. The "Citizen Coalition for the Sahel" presents, this Tuesday, April 13, a set of recommendations on dealing with the crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The text is entitled "Sahel: What must change". To talk about this report, Niagalé Bagayoko, co-author of the text, answers Laurent Correau's questions. .

Food insecurity has reached a new peak, stated the Sahel Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA). This is again worrying for the region. During a virtual meeting that ended on Friday, April 9, the RPCA takes stock of the food security situation in the Sahel region and looks at forecasts for the summer month.19.6 million people…

A symbolic ceremony to compensate the victims was organized on Tuesday, March 30, in Bamako by the Malian Transitional Authorities and the International Criminal Court. The incident follows the ICC's conviction in 2016 of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, executive director of the jihadist group Ansar Dine, which led the destruction of the mausoleums in Timbuktu in 2012. The mausoleums have since been rebuilt, and…

The joint force of the G5 Sahel, but also the Barkhane force, will therefore, from today, be able to benefit from significant military support to armed terrorist groups. This battalion was eagerly awaited in the central Sahel zone. The news was confirmed to RFI on Monday by the head of the G5 Sahel Joint Force, General Oumarou…

Unmatched attacks on villages and settlements in western Niger have left more than 200 dead in six days. This violence has not been claimed, but it bears the hallmark of the Islamic State group in the Greater Sahara, the only large jihadist group in this area that is well enough organized to carry out attacks of this size. Since the beginning of the year, four attacks have been directed at civilians in…

A few days before 2021, two questions arise for France in the Sahel. Should we reduce Barkhane's workforce? And should we negotiate with the jihadists?

About 7.5 million Nigerian voters are expected to vote in the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, December 27. The 26,000 polling stations opened around 8 a.m. with a slight delay, and about thirty candidates are running to succeed Mahamadou Issoufou. Mohamed Bazoum, from the ruling Nigerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), is one of 30 candidates to run in the first round on Sunday.…

An operation to combat arms trafficking networks taking place in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire led to the acquisition of tens of thousands of explosives, but also a large amount of dirty fuel, Interpol and the UN announced on Monday. The 260 men and women in the operation called KAFO deployed from November 30 to…