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WEST AFRICA: Plan reaffirms Sahelian insecurity fears
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES246461
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The attack comes amid growing insecurity in the Far North region over the past year. Residents in Cameroon's north are increasingly the most vulnerable in the Lake Chad Basin to…
The targeting of these civilian vigilantes highlights the centrality of community-based, often ethnically aligned, government-backed militias in the Sahel’s various conflicts…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB261041
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Nigeria’s land borders have been closed since August 2019, officially to check indiscriminate smuggling of goods into the country. The closures have been blamed in part for rising…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258209
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In late August, Nigeria’s federal government effectively shut the country’s border with Benin and parts of the western border with Niger for 28 days to stop what the federal…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB246507
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Lake Chad humanitarian crisis.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB238408
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Border security and migration in West Africa/the Sahel.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB225285
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The operations follow a week after the single-most devastating jihadist attack since 2015, when at least 39 people were killed after an assault on a mining convoy in the Est…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB247874
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Although France officially highlights the multilateral, multidimensional aspects of its operations in the Sahel, in practice the emphasis is on 'kinetic' operations and body…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB257452
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NIGERIA: Border reopening will ease pressures