Tag: Sahel
Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises
Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season?
Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first learned to walk—opens an interface on his laptop and clicks on her village in southern Niger, where humped zebu roam the dipping hills and dried-up … Read more
Niger coup final nail in France’s Sahel military strategy coffin, experts warn – EURACTIV.com
The coup in Niger which has unfolded over the past few days marks the end of a largely-failed French military ‘Barkhane’ operation in the Sahel, broadly due to a lack of resources and underlying sense of neocolonialism, experts told EURACTIV.
The coup saw Niger army general Abdourahamane Tiani topple and hold captive the democratically-elected president Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday (26 July).
The military take-over has been under heavy fire from the international community, which rejects Tiani’s legitimacy as self-declared leader.
EU sollte sich auf die nächsten Krisen vorbereiten – Irak, Sahel – EURACTIV.com
Der Fall Kabuls an die Taliban und die chaotischen internationalen Evakuierungsbemühungen zeigen, dass Europa seine eigenen militärischen Kapazitäten unabhängig von den USA entwickeln muss, argumentiert EU-Außenbeauftragter Josep Borrell.
In einem Interview mit AFP sagte Borrell, dass die europäischen Mächte Schwierigkeiten haben würden, ihre Bürger und afghanischen Verbündeten zu evakuieren, bevor die Vereinigten Staaten ihre Operation am Flughafen von Kabul einstellen – vielleicht schon am 31. August.
Mehrere US-Verbündete haben Washington gebeten, diesen Abflug zu verschieben, wie Nato-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg am