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West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 8/7/2026

Last week’s links are available here.

Sahel and West Africa

Reuters: “AfDB Approves $35 Million to Boost Senegal’s Public Finance Management.”

Libération’s Célian Macé: “Journalists, Lawyers, Opponents: In Mali, the Junta Uses the Just...

5 days ago
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Some Concerns about U.S. Policy towards West Africa after Trump

I have a piece at Responsible Statecraft about Donald Trump, West Africa, and AFRICOM. The argument is that Trump is making decisions - striking Nigeria, and reportedly considering striking Mali - out of short-term political expediency, but...

6 days ago
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Two Pieces of Mine on Sudan

I’ve had two pieces come out on Sudan recently, looking at the war there from very different angles.

One is an article in Yaqeen Institute’s journal Hashiya, titled “The War in Sudan and Its Implications for the Umma.” The piece is written...

9 days ago
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West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 7/31/2026

Last week’s links can be found here.

Sahel and West Africa

Senegal’s President Diomaye Faye visited Mali on July 29, in his first stop after taking the rotating chairmanship of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Jeu...

12 days ago
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Boko Haram Is Boring and Deadly

I’ve been struck by two things recently about Boko Haram,1 the jihadist insurgency whose mass violence has afflicted Nigeria since 2009. And I think these two things are related in that there is a widespread reluctance to acknowledge a fund...

13 days ago
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    I teach in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. I work on a range of topics connected to Islam and politics.

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