In the Sahel and central Sahara, armed actor involvement in the region’s illicit markets have been key contributors to cyclical instability there. Chadian fighters have long been key actors within...

Leggi l'articolo Niger: Has Securitisation Stopped Traffickers? sul sito dell'ISPI.

Two years ago, Mahamat Mahadi Ali, better known as “Mahadi,” the rebel leader of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, led a 600-mile incursion across

On Tuesday 14 February 2023, Raouf Farrah, Senior Analyst with the GI-TOC was arrested in Annaba, Algeria, by officers of the Gendarmerie Nationale and the judicial police.

The death of President Idriss Déby Itno, could unleash a wave of instability in the short term, but also risks laying the ground for various well-primed criminal industries to consolidate their...

L'état-major français des armées a confirmé avoir mené une série de frappes aériennes du 3 au 6 février dans le nord-est du Tchad contre une colonne rebelle tchadienne en provenance de Libye. La...

Alexandre Bish, University College London   Introduction While the deployment of “migrants as weapons” by states in geopolitical confrontations is well documented (see Lynch & Tsourapas 2024), there...

The impact of illicit markets on violence and instability in Nigeria is not as one-dimensional: illicit markets do drive instability and violence, but they can also serve, in some contexts, to...

Ouestafnews – Le journaliste nigérien, Moussa Aksar devrait comparaitre pour diffamation devant le tribunal de Niamey le 2 avril prochain. Le procès fait suite à la publication d’une enquête en...

Letter: As a member of the UN panel of experts on Libya, Dr Kartas enjoys diplomatic immunity. His detention a serious violation of Tunisia’s international obligations

Despite a clampdown on migration through the desert many are still prepared to make the deadly journey.

In March, Chad’s interim president pardoned 380 jailed members of a rebel group accused of killing his father in 2021.

More than 150,000 people in Chad have been helped with lifesaving UK aid, funded by £4.4 million recovered in a corruption case

Rather than making North Africa safer, securitizing borders has raised the risk of instability along the region’s frontiers, where communities depend on smuggling.

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) appeals to the Algerian judicial system to expedite and conclude the criminal case again...

D’une valeur de 14,4 millions d’euros, cette infrastructure comprend deux centres d’opérations tactiques dédiés notamment à la lutte contre Boko Haram.

Selon la compagnie, le puits a une capacité de production de 3 000 barils par jour et « peut être opérationnel immédiatement ».

Nombre de bailleurs et de chefs d’État l’affirment comme une évidence : pour mettre fin au « terrorisme » dans la bande saharo-sahélienne, il faut lutter contre le réchauffement climatique. Ce (...)

Editorial: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

Thousands of people from African nations are flying to Central America and then traveling over land to Mexico and on to the southern border.

Unemployment, underfunded security forces and access to guns have combined to produce record numbers of abductions

Après le Mali et le Burkina Faso, c’est au tour de la Côte d’Ivoire d’affronter l’épreuve du terrorisme. Pour y faire face, le pays ne manque pas de ressources.