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A military coup this week in Niger, a land-locked former French colony, marked the 13th attempt − 10 of them successful − to overthrow a government in Africa since 2020, according to researchers. Experts said it's difficult to concisely explain the large volume of coups in Africa's Sahel region. Some point to the...
The United States and its Western allies are faced with a difficult conundrum as they navigate potential responses to the military takeover in Niger if democratic rule is not restored. Under US law, if the US State Department formally classifies that takeover as a coup, it would require the US to cut foreign...
An apparent military takeover has occurred in the African nation of Niger. It's a country struggling with grinding poverty and fighting back an Islamist insurgency. The U.S. denounced the coup and has long counted Niger as a partner in the fight against insurgents. Stephanie Sy discussed the latest...
Kamissa Camara discussed France’s complex relationship with Africa as Macron visited Central Africa. Camara also discussed France’s ability to project power and economic benefits in parts of Africa despite unpopularity in the Sahel.
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Over the past two years, the steady expansion of terrorist and fundamentalist threats in the Sahel has not gotten the attention it deserves given the region’s repeated military coups and political turmoil. Due to the apparent contagion effect of military coups, the political instability in the Sahel has resulted in a regional and international focus on electoral timetables and constitutional rule while overlooking the rise of terrorist groups, which continue...
Burkina Faso's new military ruler Ibrahim Traoré has said he has no desire to run the country, but there are concerns that the West African nation is leaning toward Russia. For more, VOA's Carol Van Dam spoke with Kamissa Camara, a senior advisor on the Sahel with the U.S. Institute of Peace...
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"I believe that France has made considerable mistakes in its foreign policy in the Sahel and fails to look it in the mirror," Kamissa Camara, senior adviser for the Sahel at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., told Newsweek.
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..