Niger | ISS Africa

Specific measures are needed to prevent Boko Haram from regrouping and gaining ground.

Boko Haram factions continually adapt to new counter-terrorism tactics, so strategies must be flexible and systematic.

The pattern of targeting detention facilities shows that insurgents are determined to break their members out of prison.

This report examines the processes used to manage coups, and recommends how they could be improved.

Stability in West Africa requires that both organisations take pragmatic and flexible approaches, and learn from past mistakes.

Military operations are needed, but haven’t stopped Boko Haram attacks. Complementary non-kinetic efforts must be considered.

Dialogue as part of a broader strategy has many benefits and can help resolve conflicts and tackle violent extremism.

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.