Yvan Guichaoua

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08 February 2025 21:49

Vicinity of Intahaka

Andrew Lebovich

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23 January 2025 06:22

Near Samira, which is an important gold mine and continued area of JNIM operations.

Vincent Foucher

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19 January 2025 15:56

#ISWAP #BokoHaram seems back at attacking (and sometimes taking over) military outposts (in this instance, a Cameroonian military base in Ngouma)... A key aspect in their access to weaponry, this...

Nina Wilen

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17 January 2025 18:37

"A preponderance of this year’s elections will be in Francophone countries with seven of the ten occurring in West and Central Africa—the epicenter of Russian influence operations to undermine democracy on the continent" #democracy #elections #Russia africacenter.org/spotlight/20...

Andrew Lebovich

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17 January 2025 14:30

This is an excellent and thought-provoking piece from Alex Thurston (not sure if he's on Blue Sky yet) about JNIM and attacks on Sufism in Mali: alexthurston.substack.com/p/mali-jnim-... Some initial thoughts, with some recent historical context to try to situate this a bit differently. 1/14