By Arezki Daoud: A surge in jihadist violence has rocked the Sahel region through late September and early October 2025, disrupting lives from the deserts of northern Burkina Faso to the scrublands of northeastern Nigeria. Militants have overrun military bases,...
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Mali: Ongoing Attacks Prompt Longer Curfew in Western Mali
Authorities in Mali have extended the curfew in Kayes for another month, following a series of violent attacks attributed to armed groups operating in the region. The nightly movement restriction, running from midnight to 5 a.m., is designed to limit nighttime travel...
Northwest Africa’s Fishing Crisis Intensifies
In Nouadhibou, Mauritania’s bustling fishing hub, the docks don’t hum the way they once did. Factories that once packed and shipped thousands of tons of fish now stand eerily quiet, and conversations among local workers tend to spiral back to just one question: Where...
Mali: Diplomatic Rift Widens as France Expels Malian Envoys, Halts Counterterrorism Ties
Tensions between Mali and France have escalated after Paris expelled two Malian diplomats and suspended joint counterterrorism activities, responding to last month’s arrest of a French national whom the Malian government accuses of conspiring with local officials to...
Niger Dissolves Hundreds of Private Security Firms in Major Industry Overhaul
Niger’s government has shuttered 400 private security companies by ministerial decree, implementing a sweeping sector-wide reset in an effort to impose tighter conditions and oversight on an industry previously marked by legal ambiguity and fragmented operations....
Niger: Arbitration Tribunal Sides With Orano on Uranium Stock, Escalating Niger Dispute
An international arbitration panel has ordered Niger to halt any sale or transfer of uranium currently at the center of a high-stakes dispute with French mining group Orano, following the country's recent nationalization of the Somaïr mine. The provisional measure...
More releases of kidnapped persons in Sahel may signal easing of conflict between West and insurgents to focus on Russian threat
Photo: AQIM's Abu Ubaidah Youssef al-Annabi: Arezki's opinion: It may be too early to conclude that there is an...
Niger secures release of kidnapped French journalist Olivier Dubois and American aid worker Jeffery Woodke
By Camille Laffont: A French journalist and a US aid worker who had been kidnapped by jihadists in the Sahel have been...
Sahel: Secretary Blinken visits Niger as US worries about Russia’s expanding influence in the Sahel
By Shaun Tandon: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Niger on Thursday for a rare visit to a country seen...
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