West African governments aren’t investing enough in one of their greatest assets – a young population.

While climate change has not created jihadists in Mali, its effects on the livelihoods of already marginalized communities has created fertile grounds for recruitment.

Mali’s multi-layered conflicts cannot be understood from a single analytical perspective, it is not one conflict – but a dynamic system of conflicts.

Attempts by the Macina Liberation Front to rally Fulani herdsmen to its cause should not lead to pastoralists in Western Africa being portrayed as terrorists.

Is France still ‘at home’ in Francophone Africa? The G5 Sahel may well indicate so.

The Sahel has become an economic, social and political breeding ground for violence but donor spending does not seem to address the region’s main challenges.

The new EU migration trust fund’s use of development aid and its focus on ‘migration management’ securitizes both development and migration policy and will end up serving neither.

An emerging narrative points to global warming as a driver of conflict in the Sahel but this narrative risks glossing over the real root causes

Increasing international management of migration has resulted in diluted state responsibility for policies that can have devastating effects on the ground.

The delicate process of consolidating peace in Mali risks being derailed unless urgent action is taken by Malian actors and their international partners.