The Sahel Contagion Effect: How Ghana Avoids Or Merely Delays Violent Extremism
West African Security / Counter-Extremism / Ghana Threat Assessment 51%+Sahel share of global terrorism deaths (2024) IEP Global Terrorism Index...
The Invisible Front Line: Reconceptualising Unconventional Warfare in the 2020s
Introduction: The War Without a Uniform In the traditional strategic imagination, warfare is a clash of steel and gunpowder—tanks crossing...
Risk of Proxy Influence: How the Iran War Could Expand Rival Power Networks in Africa
Introduction Contemporary geopolitical competition is characterized less by direct confrontation and more by indirect engagement through proxies, economic leverage, and...
The Echoes of Conflict – Managing the Foreign Fighter Returnee Threat
Introduction In the complex and ever-shifting landscape of modern warfare, few phenomena are as consistently destabilising—and as frequently misunderstood—as the...
Algerian Civil War Series: What the Sahel and Coastal West Africa Can Learn from the Algerian Successful Counter-Terrorism Efforts
Algerian Civil War Series: What the Sahel and Coastal West Africa Can Learn from the Algerian Successful Counter-Terrorism Efforts The...
Drones, Ai And The New Face Of Terrorism In The Sahel
Introduction The Sahel the semi-arid belt stretching from Senegal to Sudan has become, by virtually every measurable indicator, the global...
Critical Minerals, Resource Nationalism, And The Securitisation Of Africa’s Subsoil
Introduction The global energy transition and the proliferation of digital technologies have triggered an unprecedented scramble for critical minerals. Lithium,...
Climate Displacement As A Security Crisis: When Migration Becomes A Threat Multiplier
Introduction The relationship between climate change and violent conflict has moved from academic hypothesis to empirical reality. Across sub-Saharan Africa...
Ecowas, The Aes And The Crisis Of West Africa’s Counterterrorism Architecture
Introduction West Africa is at a geopolitical inflection point. The simultaneous breakdown of its major regional security alliance and the...
Maligned Interests and Fragmented Security: ECOWAS–AES Rivalry and the Expansion of Jihadism in the Sahel
Introduction Over the past decade, the Sahel region has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of military interventions, regional security frameworks, and...
