Kamel Fakhry is a senior program assistant in the Africa Center at USIP. His work at the Institute focuses on women's role in peacebuilding efforts, providing support to community and religious leaders in countering hate speech and misinformation, and assisting with promoting peaceful democratic transitions programs in Central Africa and the Sahel region.

Prior to USIP, Fakhry worked at Sword Health, where he assisted patients in need of physical therapy. Fakhry previously held internships at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization and at Because People Matter Portland, where he oversaw programs for the homeless and disadvantaged youth.

Fakhry holds a bachelor’s degree in international and global studies with a concentration in international development from Portland State University. He is fluent in French.

Publications By Kamel

At the Sahel’s Center, Tension Rises Over Chad’s Disputed Election

At the Sahel’s Center, Tension Rises Over Chad’s Disputed Election

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

A disputed presidential election in Chad last week is making few global headlines, but poses new risks to African and international efforts to reverse the Sahel region’s spreading instability, conflict and human displacement. Chad is centered in the world’s largest belt of military rule: six nations across Africa that have suffered armed coups since 2020. Among them, Chad is the first to hold elections to restore civilian rule. But a string of setbacks to a fully credible vote has yielded a contested result that risks further domestic conflict and a narrowing of popular legitimacy for the next government, led by the incumbent transitional president, Mahamat Idriss Deby.

Type: Analysis

Global Elections & Conflict

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