Read our latest #PRIOblogs on the changing power dynamics in Africa’s Sahel region, written by Marie Sandnes and Ilaria Carrozza 李文呀

Centrafrique, Mali, Burkina Faso… La France en disgrâce radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

🇹🇷 The growing influence of Turkey in Africa.

Coopération Burkina Faso - Mali : « Nous pouvons constituer une fédération souple » (Me Apollinaire Kyelem de Tambela) burkina24.com/2023/02/01/vis…

Outrageous stuff, and this move continues to undermine one of the key roles of MINUSMA, which is reporting on and investigating human rights abuses. But I’ll be surprised if the mission does anything about it.

Serguei Lavrov au Mali : "Nous allons apporter notre soutien au règlement des problèmes sur le continent africain" information.tv5monde.com/afrique/sergue…

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Everyone looks at ACLED data on violence, but school closures are probably a reasonable proxy for the exercise of state authority. On the left is Burkina Faso in November 2021, on the right is October 2022. This is catastrophic.

France has some real interests to protect in Ivory Coast. Nearly 700 French companies are present there, making it France's second-biggest trade partner in sub-Saharan Africa and the strongest French presence in the region usnews.com/news/world/art…

Det nærmar seg årsdagen for Russlands angrep på Ukraina. Korleis tar vi vare på krigsbarna? spør Inger Skjelsbaek og Johanne Rokke Elvebakken i denne kronikken. @EuroWARCHILD PRIO GPS @STK_UiO CBOW Project

🚨New Report 🚨 A short 🧵. A few months ago, my colleague Marie Sandnes and I started a project on rising powers’ engagement in the #Sahel and #Afghanistan. The project was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway MFA) and hosted at PRIO. 1/

As #Mali partners up with #Wagner, #Europe needs critical look at 10 years of failed #CounterTerrorism efforts and should start by understanding its own role in wars it participates in, how its policies are perceived, and what went wrong. @SigneCold @EUobs euobserver.com/opinion/156703

Excited to share that my new article "The impact of external support on coalition efficiency: the case of the G5 Sahel Joint Force" is now published (open access) with journal of Defence Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I dag disputerer Marie Sandnes ved Institutt for Statsvitenskap. Avhandlingen har tittelen "Understanding power dynamics between intervening and host military forces: The case of the G5 Sahel Joint Force and external actors in the Sahel".

The excellent Marie Sandnes answers questions from the masterful Nina Wilén on Marie’s thesis on power dynamics in the #Sahel.

Congratulations Dr Marie Sandnes for successfully defending your PhD thesis on the #G5Sahel JF! Very happy to be part of your PhD committee and share this day with you. Check out Marie’s articles here: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🌍#CoCoOnlineFirst🔓 Asymmetric interdependence & military cooperation in the #Sahel Using relational perspectives from the #peacebuilding literature, Marie Sandnes explores security cooperation btw external & host forces in the region PRIO journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…