• Djiguikôrô

The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse: how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism.

• Mohammed Sanda

The potential return of exiled cleric Mahmoud Dicko to Mali could challenge jihadist movements by reopening political space and contesting their claim to religious authority.

• Faisal Ali

Across the continent’s new coup belt, young officers are stepping into power, casting themselves as guardians against corrupt civilian elites.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Despite the popularity of the Sahel's military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.

• Deborah Ndjerareou

Breaking from ECOWAS and Western influence, the Alliance of Sahel States signals a geopolitical shift — but can it deliver real stability?

• Faisal Ali

France’s president can’t stop talking, but his condescending remarks on Africa are only accelerating the collapse of French influence on the continent.

• Tamás Gerőcs

What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?

• Mathijs Cazemier

The excessive reporting of the interplay between non-African powers in the Sahel — however crucial it may be to understand regional dynamics — betrays a Western-centric bias in international news coverage.

• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Bakary Camara
• Leah Durst-Lee
• Lotte Pelckmans
• Marie Rodet

Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.

• Jordan G. Teicher

Mitigating climate change's impact on the Sahel by planting trees across it, is not enough. Averting disaster requires even bigger thinking.

• Rahmane Idrissa

How local conflicts in the Sahel-Sahara over justice, or rather its absence, get dragged into tensions between outsiders.

• Andrew Hernann

Mainstream journalism must stop treating Timbuktu and Timbuktians as artifacts, focusing mainly on manuscripts.

• Boima Tucker

Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.