West Africa: Terrorism May Worsen in Nigeria, Other Sahel Countries - Ex-Ecowas Commissioner allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Exclusive: General Béhanzin on defence and security in West Africa and the Sahel defenceweb.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from defenceweb.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three years of coups around Africa’s Sahel region eight of them in six nations, from Guinea on the Atlantic to Sudan on the Red Sea leave many African and other policymakers frustrated over how to respond. The Sahel’s crises have uprooted more than 4 million people and could add millions more to our record levels of global human migration as Africa’s population grows and its climate destabilizes. Yet the pattern of coups and other evidence notably from USIP’s Sahel fieldwork, counter-coup research and bipartisan analysis teams offer guidelines for effective responses by African, U.S. and international policymakers.