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This past summer, Howard University’s Center for African Studies hosted its first online course, Advanced Seminar in African Policy. The course was led by Ambassador Kamissa Camara, director for external affairs and Africa policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and senior visiting expert for the Sahel at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C..
In this edition of Straight Talk Africa, new host Haydé Adams looks at what’s behind the social uprisings led by youth across Africa. Her guests are Kamissa Camara, expert for the Sahel at the United States Institute of Peace and...
Earlier this month, U.S. President Joe Biden’s envoy to the United Nations paid tribute to the late leader of Chad, lauding Idriss Déby as “a leader and a partner who dedicated his life to the fight against violent extremism” and “a military man at his core.” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s remarks...
The April 20 death of the President of Chad, Idriss Déby, and the subsequent military coup have profoundly destabilized the country and other parts of West Africa. Likewise, over the past year, the security situation has deteriorated significantly in...
The UN says Burkina Faso is the fastest displacement crisis in the world. Unpacking the Sahel Region's spike in violence with Kamissa Camara, senior visiting expert for the Sahel at USIP on One World CNN.
Anxiety has gripped the Sahel region as the stalwart French ally in the fight against jihadist insurgencies in the area, Chad President Idriss Déby Itno was buried in the country’s capital, N’Djamena, on April 23. President Déby died on April 20 of wounds he sustained while...
Kamissa Camara is a senior visiting expert for the Sahel at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is a sub-Saharan Africa policy analyst and practitioner with 15 years of professional experience. Camara is also the former Foreign Minister of Mali. She joins Julie Mason to discuss...
At the beginning of March, Senegal was rocked by the most violent protests of its recent history. The demonstrations spread spontaneously throughout the country after the police arrested Ousmane Sonko, a member of parliament and...