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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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Security challenges in Niger.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB244018
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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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Countering violent extremism in the Sahel.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB241772
ISSN: 2633-304X
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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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The Central Mediterranean route, used by half of all irregular migrants to the EU in 2016, now accounts for only 9% of irregular travel to the EU. Meanwhile, the pace of arrivals…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB250622
ISSN: 2633-304X
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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.