Report Summary: Unpacking ‘new climate wars’: Actors and Drivers of Conflict in the Sahel (Danish Foreign Policy Society)
The report maps the key actors driving violence in the Mopti region (the region of Mali located in the Sahel),…
Transnational Organized Crime in the Sahel (UNODC)
The Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment – Sahel (TOCTA Sahel) consists of a series of research reports that provide in-depth…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: North Africa and Sahel (Adelphi)
This paper endeavours to provide a concise overview of peer-reviewed literature on the links between climate change and conflict in…
Trans-border Mobility and Security in the Sahel: Exploring the Dynamics of Forced Migration and Population Displacements in Burkina Faso and Mali (Springer)
Using qualitative methods and documentary evidence, the paper found that poor governance, lack of state-building measures, and socio-economic exclusion of…
Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel (International Rescue Committee)
This report examines how political decisions dating from the French colonial rule through the early 2000s have marginalised peripheral areas…
Sahel Crisis (R4Sahel)
These figures represent the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, refugee returnees, internally displaced people (IDP) and IDP returnees, as reported either…
Sahel 2023 Situation Overview (UNHCR)
In this volatile context, UNHCR will endeavour to stay and deliver a protection-centred emergency response. To better understand the risks…
Security for All. Promoting democratic governance and inclusive security through CSO involvement in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon and the wider ECOWAS region (European Union & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
Civil society participation in the security sector reform and governance processes needs to be increased by empowering civil society actors…
NIGER. The Gate to the Sahel (Brot für die Welt)
Many interventions have been targeted at strenghtening the legal and institutional framework regarding migration control and border security. Much of…
Smuggling in the Sahel: The route of arms, gas and gold (Atalayar)
To combat trafficking and other evolving threats, a group of countries in the region – Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger…
Community rivalries at the heart of Sahel insecurity (ISS Africa)
Given the myriad issues confronting the Sahel, the Peace and Security Council (PSC) endorsed the African Union (AU) 2014 Sahel…
Greater Support Urgently Needed to Tackle Sahel Region’s Growing Insecurity, Aid Fight against Terrorism, Extremism, Senior Official Tells Security Council (UN Security Council)
Insecurity in the tri-border area of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger continues to grow, a senior United Nations peace operations…