October 2022

L’impasse Libyenne

North Africa Talks reçoit aujourd’hui le chercheur spécialiste du dossier libyen Jalel Harchaoui, pour nous parler des derniers événements qui ont secoué Tripoli et les luttes pour la prise de pouvoir qui s’y déroulent, du jeu des puissances internationales et..

October 2022

Jihadism in Sahel and spillover risks towards north Africa

North Africa Talks welcomes Alex Thurston, an expert on Jihadism in the North Africa-Sahel region, to talk about the security situation in the region and emerging trends and risks.

Interview
October 2022

Jihadism in Sahel and spillover risks towards north Africa

North Africa Talks welcomes Alex Thruston, an expert on Jihadism in the North Africa-Sahel region, to talk about the security situation in the region and emerging trends and risks.  

Article
August 2022

The war in Ukraine divides Africa

  After two months of inconclusive attempts, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelynsky succeeded on June 20 in addressing African representatives at a closed-door meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa.[1] Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, Kiev has never shown any..

Article
June 2022

Diplomats, spies and arms dealers: Turkey’s Great Game in North Africa

Tika, Müsiad, Tüsiad, Sadat, all these bizarre acronyms that are actually the hidden face of Turkey’s global strategy in Africa and North Africa especially, which has experienced a significant change in Turkey’s commitment between 2009 and 2022. It must be..

Article
March 2022

There is war in Europe – Africa is looking for its position

On 2 March 2022, during a United Nations General Assembly vote, the large majority of UN member states condemned Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine. Only Belarus, North Korea and Syria, along with one African country, Eritrea, voted with Russia..

Article
March 2022

China’s Discreet Game in North Africa – Private Military Companies

Introduction A closed country for many years, China experienced the explosion of its economy and the invasion of distant markets at the same time as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the establishment of a new world order, September 11,..

Article
February 2022

France’s African policy is at a dead end. And Putin is in the fast lane

Mali’s military junta has booted out the French ambassador, Joël Meyer, for criticising its decision to postpone national elections indefinitely

Article
January 2022

Wagner in Libya – combat and influence

The private military company Wagner Group is the most decisive player in the military strategy of the Libyan national army, headed by Marshal Khalifa Haftar

Research paper
November 2021

The Algerian strategy in the Sahel: Shift or adaptation

This study examines Algeria’s possible changing role in the Sahel conflict in the wake of the announcement of the termination of the French military operation Barkhane in 2022

Research paper
February 2019

Tinder to the fire: Burkina Faso in the conflict zone

This study examines the reasons why northern Burkina has been engulfed by endemic violence since the mid-2010s, in an effort to understand future evolutions and recommend coping and preventive action

Research paper
January 2019

Escalating conflicts in Burkina Faso

In October 2014, a popular uprising in Burkina Faso precipitated a military coup against twenty-seven-year incumbent Blaise Compaoré. After a fourteen-month transition, a failed coup in September 2015, and a presidential election the following month, President Roch Kaboré took office in December 2015