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Central Mali will face rising intercommunal tensions

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MALI

Ethnic and jihadist violence in central Mali.

France and Mali apply dual strategy to Sahel jihadists

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SAHEL

The initiative follows the release of a Human Rights Watch report documenting atrocities in central Mali resulting from inter-communal and jihadist violence, which has spread…

West African coastal states will fear jihadist threat

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WEST AFRICA

Jihadists' coastal threat.

Jihadists will try to provoke new Burkinabe faultlines

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BURKINA FASO

Burkinabe jihadists' tactics.

Jihadist growth may accelerate in the Sahel

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SAHEL

Violence also appears to be escalating in Niger since the July 2023 coup there. The ruling military juntas in all three countries have followed the same basic strategy of…

Rising violence risks deepening Burkinabe fault lines

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BURKINA FASO

The attacks targeting ethnic Peulh (Fulani) communities have been attributed to the ethnic Mossi-dominated 'Koglweogo' (Guardians of the Bush) vigilante group, in the latest…

Sahelian militias aid and undercut peace prospects

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WEST AFRICA

The targeting of these civilian vigilantes highlights the centrality of community-based, often ethnically aligned, government-backed militias in the Sahel’s various conflicts…

Menaka fighting shows the limits of the Malian state

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MALI

The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) appears to have the upper hand in its struggle against a coalition comprising two pro-government militias and the Armed Forces of…

Mali may struggle to reinvigorate its peace process

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MALI

However, the current peace process appears to offer little prospect of overcoming the challenges faced in the fractious north and increasingly violent centre.