Mapping Africa Transformations
Reports
Read in depth studies and publications.
Populist civil society, the Wagner Group, and post-coup politics in Mali
The military coup of August 2020 upended Mali’s fragile liberal democratic order
Borders and conflict in North and West Africa
This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa
Non-military actors as a regional strategy in the Lake Chad region
The purpose of this paper is to examine current regional strategies employed to counter extremism in the Lake Chad Basin region
Conflict networks in North and West Africa
Conflicts in North and West Africa have become more violent and widespread than in the past
Dangerous border areas
In the past decade, one third of the incidents of political violence that have caused casualties in the region have taken place within 50-km of a land border
Long term trends across security and development in the Sahel
This paper offers a broad overview of the current situation in the Sahel paying attention to the intersecting and overlapping issues of security and development
Contemporary civil-military relations in the Sahel
The paper examines the evolution and the contemporary state of civil-military relations in the francophone Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal)