Tag: West Africa

Daily news – February 8, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Astana Times, Atlantic Council, Brookings, Bruegel, Chatham House, CSIS, Defense News, Defense One, East Asia Forum, Foundation for Defense of...

Toward a regional response to fragility, conflict, and violence in West Africa: ‘Think Regionally and Act Locally’ (Nicolas Perrin and Aly Rahim, Brookings)

The deteriorating security situation in some of West Africa’s most neglected and climate-vulnerable borderlands, such as the Lake Chad region or the Liptako-Gourma region,...

35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel (UN News)

Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be ignored by the...

Is a military solution in West Africa the only way out? (Al Jazeera)

There is anger against France in West Africa at what protesters say is the flawed relationship between French armed forces and their African allies. Two...

Guinea/West Africa. The fall of Alpha Condé’s regime in Guinea: A critical appraisal (Rajen Harshé, ORF)

The military coup d’état in Guinea on the 5th of September, 2021 and the consequent ouster as well as arrest of the 83-year-old former President Alpha Condé...

West Africa – Is West Africa ready for a single currency? (Brookings)

Aloysius Uche Ordu, Ali Zafar, and Jan Muench write: Since the early 2000s, the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been pursuing a...

(West Africa/New Ebola Outbreak) International Red Cross Issues Emergency Appeal to Prevent New Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (VoA)

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $9.4 million to fund efforts to prevent a new Ebola outbreak...