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 success of the peace process now depends on the ability of the government to address structural issues like inequality, which have surfaced as crucial dividing lines in this conflict.

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.

Since the early 1990s, peacekeeping operations originally designed for short-term assignments (such as ceasefire verification) have become longer-term and more ambitious multi-dimensional peacebuilding missions.

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.