CEP – KAS: Sahel Monitoring May 2024

The month of May saw a significant increase in social media output from both the Islamic State as well as JNIM–as was expected given the continuous rise of online activities of both groups in recent months. The number of statements published during the month of May reached their highest point since reporting began in December 2022. 151 statements were released by the Islamic State’s branches and JNIM, al-Qaeda’s representative in the Sahel.

Conflits au Sahel et rôle trouble des médias occidentaux

Les conflits dans les régions du Sahel nécessitent une approche globale et une appropriation des médias. Le 9 septembre 2024, le journal français «Contre-Poison» a publié une interview de Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, porte-parole du CSP-DPA (Cadre stratégique pour la défense du peuple de l’Azawad). Cet épisode a attiré l’attention sur le rôle des médias occidentaux dans la diffusion d’informations sur les groupes considérés comme terroristes par les autorités du Mali.

Russie, Chine et complémentarité en Afrique

La question de la complémentarité entre la Fédération de Russie et la République populaire de Chine dans le cadre de l’interaction avec les alliés et partenaires sur le continent africain est plus que jamais d’actualité et commence à recevoir un soutien officiel.

En effet, cette interaction russo-sino-africaine représente un autre cauchemar pour les représentants des régimes de la minorité planétaire occidentale.

Time To Pivot From Military Option To Diplomatic Engagement – Analysis

The Sahel region of north Africa may be understood as “one region, many crises.” This statement is taken from a paper first published in 2013 by the UN’s Africa Renewal Project, but it is no less relevant today – perhaps, more so. Africa’s Sahel region faces many complex and interconnected challenges.

The Geopolitical Implications of Libya’s Intractable Crisis

The ongoing rift between political leaders in eastern and western Libya briefly roiled the oil market last week, as both sides seek to control the state’s assets to further their objectives.

As has been the case in several regional countries, United Nations, U.S., European, and other mediators have failed to persuade rival factions to implement a roadmap to forge a unified political and security structure.

Libya’s political crisis has provided opportunity for regional and global actors to empower Libyan factions to advance their agendas.

American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa

While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information warfare alone as proven by its failures in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Sudan, which are the six countries of focus mentioned in Politico’s latest report.

The Sahelian Alliance’s Plans To Create A Confederation Will Transform Continental Dynamics

It’ll of course take some time to reap the fruits of this vision, but throughout the interim, these countries can rely on varying degrees of Russian assistance.

Burkina Faso revealed in February that it planned to create a confederation with neighboring Mali, which President Traore elaborated on in an exclusive interview with Sputnik in late July. Those two and their mutual Nigerien neighbor then formed the Sahelian Alliance in mid-September nearly three months after that last-mentioned country’s coup. This platform created the basis upon which to include Niger in the planned Burkinabe-Malian Confederation according to their Foreign Ministers’ latest joint statement.