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  • Dialogues about Security Challenges in the Sahelo-Saharan Region

Security challenges and issues in the sahelo-saharan region : The Morocco perspective

2016, Bamako. The recent Malian and Libyan crises have exacerbated the multidimensional insecurity (at personal, economic, political, social, environmental, healthcare, etc. levels) that affects the populations living the Sahelo-Saharan...

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  • Dialogues about Security Challenges in the Sahelo-Saharan Region

Security challenges and issues in the sahelo-saharan region : The Mauritania perspective

2016, Bamako. The recent Malian and Libyan crises have exacerbated the multidimensional insecurity (at personal, economic, political, social, environmental, healthcare, etc. levels) that affects the populations living the Sahelo-Saharan...

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  • ECOWAS

Get to Know ECOWAS – Regional Approaches to Improving Security Policy and Electoral Processes in West Africa

This volume combines the contributions of participants of the “Get to Know the ECOWAS” Training programme form the classes of 2011 and 2012. It is the second publication in a series, which began in 2010 following a joint initiative of...

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  • Boko Haram

A danger not to Nigeria Alone – Boko Haram's Transnational Reach and Regional Responses

Nigeria, once well respected for its role in restoring stability in some conflict-torn states in West Africa, is now in need of the international community’s assistance to guarantee peace and security in her own territory. The growing...

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  • Democratic Governance & Human Security

Cross-Border Flows between Nigeria and Benin: What Are the Challenges for (Human) Security?

This publication seeks to examine the concrete security challenges resulting from the cross-border exchanges between Benin and Nigeria. This border has received increased attention due to fears of a spread of Boko Haram activities...

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  • Organized Crime

Organized Crime, Security Threats and Governance: The Sustainability of European Union Programmes in West Africa

Forms of Organized Crime in West Africa span from ALW proliferation to drug- trafficking, terrorism, and piracy This publication aims to stimulate the debate on the root causes and on actions to be taken to prevent such crimes.

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  • Maritime Security

Regional Approaches to Maritime Security in the Horn of Africa

This study argues that efforts to improve maritime security in the Horn of Africa region have assumed a certain pattern whereby the concerns and perspective of the developed world have tended to overshadow the agenda of the states in the...

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  • Maritime Security

The African Union, the African Peace and Security Architecture, and Maritime Security

The content of African maritime security as an emerging policy field is contested. It can be located anywhere between traditional security politics (i.e. related to piracy, maritime terrorism and unregulated fishing), developmental and...

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  • Organized Crime

FES Series on Organised Crime on Governance in West Africa

Reports by the UN Office for Drug Control (UNODC) suggest that, over the past decade, transnational criminal networks have infiltrated West African polities up to the highest circles. By means of coercion and corruption, criminal...

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  • Organized Crime

The Impact of Organised Crime on Governance

Data compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) suggests that West Africa has become a major hub of Organised Crime, both in terms of volume and quality. Transnational Crime has spread into all spheres of public...

Publications

Mainstraming of women's needs and participation in security sector reform processes in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

Moderan, Ornella | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December 2023

From a focus on security to diplomatic dialogue

Dakono, Baba | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 2022

should a negotiated stability be consiedered in the Sahel?

Gender-based violence in West Africa

Ndiaye, Ndèye Amy | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Peace and Security Competence Centre Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021

the cases of Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger

The role of women in the conflict in Cabo Delgado

Feijó, João | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Peace and Security Competence Centre Sub-Saharan Africa, [2021]

understanding vicious cycles of violence

Chad in its regional environment

Gnanguênon, Amandine | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Peace and Security Competence Centre Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021

political alliances and ad hoc military coalitions

Pandora's box

Tisseron, Antonin | Dakar-Fann : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Peace and Security Competence Centre Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021

Burkina Faso, self-defense militias and VDP law in fighting jihadism

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