BAKU XI FORUM : Building Resilience to Global Challenges: addressing inequality, resources scarcity and migrations.

Ahmedou Ould – Abdallah, President Centre4s

Below a summary of my oral presentation

For its annual conference, the Baku Forum has rightly selected this most central theme: ‘’building resilience to global challenges.’’ Migration, whatever regular or irregular, is of concern to many states if not or all of them: those of origin, transit and destination. Today, ignoring migrations challenges amounts to a huge legal case.

 

Sahel: the fight against terrorism, the waste

A multitude of actors are fighting terrorism in the Sahel: the concerned countries armies with the help of civilian auxiliaries and international partners. From 2012 to now, the fighting has sometimes intensified, sometimes decreased and then turned into an implicit truce. Terrorist groups abounded and fought each other for supremacy on the ground. The hydra is still there, causing, among other things, human tragedies. Relations between partners – African and international governments – have deteriorated to the point of destroying coalitions and regional organizations. A feeling of waste and failure prevails.