Niger | ISS Africa

Disrupting the financing and local economies of violence is crucial to defeating terrorist groups.

With ECOWAS sanctions lifted, the military authorities must rapidly set the course for Niger to return to civilian rule.

Reorganising Wagner as Africa Corps enables Russia to expand its Africa strategy through direct state means.

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s request to withdraw presents a crucial opportunity to improve the regional bloc’s functioning.

This report examines the key demand factors, actors and markets at the core of the illicit proliferation of SALW in the Sahel.

Lessons on incentivising former fighters and associates to disengage can be useful to other affected countries.

Lessons on incentivising former fighters and associates to disengage can be useful to other affected countries.

The two countries must put their political differences aside to stop the violence that is devastating border communities.

Lake Chad Basin’s once flourishing fishing and agro-pastoral economies are now threatened by violent extremism.

Boko Haram’s regional presence not only drives conflict and instability but impacts heavily on livelihoods.

As food shortages intensify, the region is also grappling with insecurity linked to Boko Haram.

Using drones and other technology in the Lake Chad Basin could give violent extremists the upper hand.