Sahel: serious old and new perils

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In the Sahel, while old security perils remain and keep spreading, at the same time, new destabilizing threats emerge and are extending. Focus of real international concerns, not long ago, these perils are now marginalized by the war in Ukraine and Sudan creeping collapse. With the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they now find themselves off the media headlines and the concerns of the major decision-makers and other influencers.

Almost left on its own, with all subsequent risks of amplification and perpetuation, the Sahel, an explosive Pandora’s Box, shouldn’t remain forever marginalized.

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Sahel: gold, resources and threats

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Introduction by Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, president centre4s.org

In the Sahel, increasingly long-lasting violent terrorism as well as chronical military coups d’état are distracting attention from a situation that undoubtedly reinforce both of them. That is Gold formal and informal productions and sales. It must no longer be excluded that Sahel Islamists have approaches closer to their brothers’ in Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere than thought. Self-financing through the sale of a lucrative local product is a source of independence and influence: opium for Taliban, maritime piracy for Al Shabab and… gold sales for the Sahel groups.

The below paper of Centre4s consultant deserves attention and follow up.

 

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Sahel: uncontrolled threats takes hold

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Immensely vast and still relatively lightly populated, the Sahel continues to be professed as a well-known region. However, for more than a decade, this region has never ceased to surprise by multiple mutations and various brutalities that have started, developed and are spreading there. The current decade atrocities can be boosted only by those that are currently exploding and spreading in Sudan since April 15, 2023. After Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the latest to join that scene of change, will it further aggravate the situation leading, by imitation effect, to another or more states?

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Sahel: the war in Sudan

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Since 2012, the central Sahel region has been continuously subjected to multiple intimately linked political, security and humanitarian crises. Economic catastrophes were bound to follow and with them, famines and environmental degradation. In that already harsh context, the civil war in Sudan and its multiple consequences could only be harmful to the region. Revitalized at the level of its member states and supported by its external partners, the G 5 Sahel, as well as the institutions linked to it, may prove to be more useful than we think.

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