by Contributed | Aug 23, 2022 | Blog
By Armel BAILY Jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso have inflamed accusations against the Fulani community, sparking warnings the troubled country may spiral into ethnic conflict — even civil war. The impoverished Sahel state is battling a seven-year-old jihadist...
by Contributed | May 5, 2022 | Blog
Defence chiefs from West Africa’s ECOWAS bloc began a two-day meeting Thursday aimed at boosting military cooperation in a region that has suffered hundreds of attacks this year alone. Among the 15 members of the Economic Community of West African States...
by Contributed | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog
Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country’s borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said Wednesday. Niger’s interior ministry said “unidentified armed bandits”...
by David Bishop | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog
An honorary guard of Burkina Faso soldiers. Photo by Olympia De Maismont/AFP via Getty Images Daniel Eizenga, Africa Center for Strategic Studies Within a few weeks of the start of a new year and West Africa had its first attempted coup d’état. On January 12 the...
