The website sahara-sahel.org is an initiative of Policyinstitute.net. It has been our mission, since 2021, to deliver reliable and purposeful analyses concerning the African Sahel, in specific – a region which spans Africa from West to East, covering desert areas in the North and more humid zones in the South.
Policyinstitute.net, as a whole, also proposes policy recommendations in other fields of the social and political sciences. To date, the institute maintains four topical websites. Besides sahara-sahel.org, these are counter-terrorism.org, preventhate.org, and strategism.org. The ambits of these three sites are self-explanatory.
Policyinstitute.net’s founder, Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, is a journalist, social science researcher and author, and not-for-profit NGO Manager. He used to serve as Senior Expert on Mauritania and, for years, has engaged in the promulgation of soft security, thereby informing a large network of scholars and practitioners on the topic of soft security.