Sahel: African-Atlantic Gas Pipeline a Structural Project

Avr 8, 2025rootNon classé

Paul AMARA, Consultant, Centre4s

The African-Atlantic Gas Pipeline (Nigeria – Morocco) or GAA was initiated by Morocco in December 2016 during King Mohamed VI visit to Nigeria. Valued at $25 billion, this mega-project will connect Morocco to Nigeria via the Atlantic coast, crossing 13 countries before reaching Europe. Approximately 5,600 – 6,200 km long, it should also ensure energy security of both these coastal countries and the Alliance of Sahel States (ESA). One of the world best-known pipelines is the North Stream 2, connecting Russia to Germany over 1,234 km and is 48 inches wide. Worldwide, there are 3,859,000 km of pipelines, transporting 5 trillion tons of gas.

Sahel: Sudan and Chad, mutual destabilization?

Jan 29, 2025rootNon classé

By Liman Nawada, consultant, centre4s

With terrorists’ attacks still on the rise, across and around the Sahel, the continuous Sudan violent armed conflict must be more than worrying. Indeed, it affects all its neighbors.

Sahel: always and still conflicts

Jan 11, 2025rootNon classé

Ahmedou Ould Abdallah President centre4s

Since 2005, the Sahel remains again and again weakened by terrorism! Due to the environment degradation, it is expanding and terrorism is spreading, taking root, and becoming commonplace. This context exposes and further weakens this vast area composed of countries that are often poorly structured to face the multiple ambitions and internal and external threats of more organized, more determined actors announcing to all attractive promises down here and beyond. The continued rooting and expansion of that terrorism – now a Sahel trademark – is reinforced by the bloody civil war in Sudan, still in its early stages, the armed impasse in Libya and the headlong rush of the Sahel states themselves. The return to a kind of cold war remains a useless bet in the face of so many dangers promising to terrorism rooting and expansion. The deficit in anticipation capacities, one of the immense challenges remains to be overcome.

Sahel: Resurgence of Boko Haram?

Déc 17, 2024rootNon classé

Limam Nadawa, Consultant Centre4s.org

On the night of October 27 to 28, 2024, the Nigerian terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked a Chadian garrison, located on Barkaram, island department of Kaya, near the Nigerian border. The terrorists took control of the military base, ransacked various equipment and recovered weapons before withdrawing. That tragedy raises the question of whether Boko Haram, supposedly weakened, has regained strength. The Barkaram attack also shows Chad and its neighbors’ difficulties in fighting together against the terrorist hydra.

Sahel: deficits in anticipation and conflict management

Déc 1, 2024rootNon classé

Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, president of centre4s

For the past 10 to 15 years, in the Sahel, security has yet to improve. On the contrary, it has become entrenched and has worsened. Fueled by infrastructures destructions and populations distress, anarchic migrations to cities and, beyond, to overseas countries, insecurity continues. Worse, it is spreading west, east and viciously to the south, towards the Gulfs of Benin and Guinea.