Oil on the Jihadi Fire: The Repercussions of a Wagner Group Deployment to Burkina Faso
...of Mali in officially ending military ties with France after more than a decade of French-led counterterrorism missions throughout the Sahel. With Russia’s favorite private military company, the...
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The Local Face of Jihadism in Northern Mali
...a more fundamental problem with the “local” vs. “foreign” distinction is that all of northern Mali’s jihadist groups recruited locally in Mali and the broader Sahel, both from...
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Dr. Geoff Porter moderates CFR Roundtable on Sahel
The Combating Terrorism Center’s Geoff D. Porter moderated a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Sahel: Complex Realities Beyond Insecurity’ which was part of the Council on Foreign Relation’s US Africa...
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Guns, Money and Prayers: AQIM’s Blueprint for Securing Control of Northern Mali
...force operating in the Sahel and Sahara. For years, AQIM and its offshoots have pursued strategies of integration in the region based on a sophisticated reading of the...
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A View from the CT Foxhole: Idriss Mounir Lallali, Deputy Director, African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT)
...to the local context and conditions. It went through a “Mauritanization” phase and more recently a “Sahelian” phase where even the al-Qa`ida representatives within the Sahel are much...
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Mali’s Challenges Post-French Intervention
...Conflict in the Sahel-Sahara Region. [32] In the West, Mauritania is generally considered the least problematic state in the Sahel. Its president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has portrayed...
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A View from the CT Foxhole: Brigadier General Dagvin R.M. Anderson, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Africa
...to be effective. The G5 Sahel hasn’t really performed because they haven’t been operationalized. The G5 Sahel was set up to secure the borders between the five Sahel...
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Between Islamization and Secession: The Contest for Northern Mali
...affairs.[43] The Post-9/11 Role of the U.S. Military in Mali The U.S. military’s engagement in Mali has been evolving for nearly a decade. After 9/11, the greater Sahel...
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