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No. 43 | 01 May 2024 |
Military coups, jihadism and insecurity in the Central Sahel
This paper examines the interactions between the 2020-23 Sahelian coups and the trajectories of jihadism and insecurity, covering three countries: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. First, it examines pre-coup trends in violence. Second, the paper finds... |
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No. 42 | 09 Mar 2024 |
Identifying local conflict trends in North and West Africa
Several states in West Africa have experienced significant episodes of political violence since the early 2010s. These have included civil wars, religiously motivated terrorism, separatist insurgencies, military coups and communal strife, each of... |
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No. 41 | 09 Mar 2024 |
The fragmentation of conflict networks in North and West Africa
African armed conflicts involve a myriad of state forces, rebel groups and extremist organisations bound by rapidly changing alliances and rivalries. Organisations that were allies one day can fight each other the next and co-operate later still. The... |
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No. 40 | 08 Sept 2023 |
City shapes and climate change in Africa
Africa is undergoing an unprecedented urban and climate transition; yet, given the right conditions, compact urban forms can encourage greater sustainability, resilience and liveability in the coming decades. Using novel techniques and newly... |
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No. 39 | 31 Jul 2023 |
Healthy diets, costs and food policies in the Sahel and West Africa
The Sahel and West Africa region is facing a serious food and nutrition security crisis with high rates of acute malnutrition, combined with high rates of malnourishment and over-nourishment – the “triple burden of malnutrition”. Poor-quality diets... |
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No. 38 | 09 Nov 2022 |
West Africa and the global climate agenda
COP27 will return to Africa for the first time since 2016 to follow up on promises made in Glasgow in 2021 to limit global temperatures to well below 2°C by the end of the century as committed under the Paris Agreement. Nationally Determined... |
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No. 37 | 31 Jul 2022 |
Boosting African cities' resilience to climate change
The next few decades will bring an era of rapid urbanisation and unprecedented climate stress in African cities. Green spaces can boost the resilience of cities to heat waves, floods, landslides, and even coastal erosion, in addition, to enhancing... |
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No. 36 | 12 Jul 2022 |
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. The junta-led transitionary government defies international pressure to fasten the return of democratically-elected rulers and constitutional rule. The ability of the... |
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No. 35 | 24 Jun 2022 |
Financing for gender equality in the Sahel and West Africa
The Sahel and West Africa continue to face significant challenges in advancing towards gender equality and women’s empowerment. While much progress has been made in health and educational outcomes for women and girls in the region, much more has yet... |
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No. 34 | 17 Jun 2022 |
Political violence targeting women in West Africa
Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. This is also true in West Africa. Women can be targeted in a myriad of ways, by an array of types of perpetrators, during and outside of periods of conflict and... |
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No. 33 | 11 Nov 2021 |
Urbanisation and demography in North and West Africa, 1950-2020
This brief presents a factual and retrospective analysis of the relationships between urbanisation and demography in North Africa and West Africa. It shows that the process of demographic transition is now fully underway in this region. North of the... |
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No. 32 | 05 Aug 2021 |
How is life in West Africa's cities?
The number of people living in African cities is expected to double over the next two decades. While the need to provide adequate infrastructure, create high quality jobs and manage pollution in fast growing cities has been well studied, these... |
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No. 31 | 13 Jul 2021 |
Pastoralist violence in North and West Africa
This study examines the geographical and temporal evolution of violence in which pastoralists are engaged. Building upon an analysis of over 36,000 violent events in North and West Africa between January 1997 and April 2020 in which 206 pastoralist... |
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No. 30 | 13 Apr 2021 |
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. Using the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) as a case study, the paper highlights the importance of non-military actors... |
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No. 29 | 01 Sept 2020 |
The structure of livestock trade in West Africa
This paper uses network analysis to map and characterise live animal trade in West Africa. Building on a database of 42 251 animal movements collected by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) from 2013-17, it... |
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No. 27 | 09 Mar 2020 |
Women and climate change in the Sahel
The purpose of this paper is to explore the gendered impacts of climate change in the Sahel. In particular, it explores the ways in which gender inequality is a critical factor in understanding vulnerability and resilience efforts concerning climate... |
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No. 25 | 17 Sept 2019 |
Long term trends across security and development in the Sahel
Following the 2013 French military intervention in Mali, significant attention has been paid to issues of security and development in the Sahel. The stability of Sahelian countries and the capacity of their governments to manage social change and... |
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No. 24 | 05 Apr 2019 |
Integrating gender analysis into food & nutrition security early warning systems in West Africa
Integrating gender dimensions into early warning systems is critical to support equitable crisis prevention and response. This paper investigates the extent to which food and nutrition security early warning systems (FNS EWS) in the Sahel and West... |
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No. 23 | 18 Apr 2019 |
Accessibility and Infrastructure in Border Cities
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there... |
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No. 22 | 18 Apr 2019 |
Businesses and Health in Border Cities
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health infrastructure in West Africa. The analysis shows that sectors crucial for regional integration are concentrated in economic capitals... |
West African Papers
The West African Papers series explores African socio-economic, political and security dynamics from a regional and multidisciplinary perspective. It seeks to stimulate discussion and gather information to better anticipate the changes that will shape future policies. The series is designed for a wide audience of specialists, development practitioners, decision makers and the informed public. Papers are available in English and/or French, and summaries are available in both languages. Initiated by the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) to highlight and promote West African issues, the work presented is prepared by its Secretariat, Members and partners, other OECD departments, related international organisations, associated experts and researchers.
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Military coups, jihadism and insecurity in the Central Sahel
Alex Thurston
01 May 2024
This paper examines the interactions between the 2020-23 Sahelian coups and the trajectories of jihadism and insecurity, covering three countries: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. First, it examines pre-coup trends in violence. Second, the paper finds...
Identifying local conflict trends in North and West Africa
Steven Radil and Olivier J. Walther
09 Mar 2024
Several states in West Africa have experienced significant episodes of political violence since the early 2010s. These have included civil wars, religiously motivated terrorism, separatist insurgencies, military coups and communal strife, each of...
The fragmentation of conflict networks in North and West Africa
Olivier J. Walther and David Russell
09 Mar 2024
African armed conflicts involve a myriad of state forces, rebel groups and extremist organisations bound by rapidly changing alliances and rivalries. Organisations that were allies one day can fight each other the next and co-operate later still. The...
City shapes and climate change in Africa
Brilé Anderson, Rafael Prieto Curiel and Jorge Eduardo Patiño Quinchía
08 Sept 2023
Africa is undergoing an unprecedented urban and climate transition; yet, given the right conditions, compact urban forms can encourage greater sustainability, resilience and liveability in the coming decades. Using novel techniques and newly...
Healthy diets, costs and food policies in the Sahel and West Africa
Yan Bai, Jill Bouscarat, Kristina Sokourenko, Philipp Heinrigs and Koffi Zougbédé
31 Jul 2023
The Sahel and West Africa region is facing a serious food and nutrition security crisis with high rates of acute malnutrition, combined with high rates of malnourishment and over-nourishment – the “triple burden of malnutrition”. Poor-quality diets...
West Africa and the global climate agenda
Brilé Anderson, Susanne Rhein and Daniel Acosta
09 Nov 2022
COP27 will return to Africa for the first time since 2016 to follow up on promises made in Glasgow in 2021 to limit global temperatures to well below 2°C by the end of the century as committed under the Paris Agreement. Nationally Determined...
Boosting African cities' resilience to climate change
Brilé Anderson, Jorge Eduardo Patiño Quinchía and Rafael Prieto Curiel
31 Jul 2022
The next few decades will bring an era of rapid urbanisation and unprecedented climate stress in African cities. Green spaces can boost the resilience of cities to heat waves, floods, landslides, and even coastal erosion, in addition, to enhancing...
Populist civil society, the Wagner Group, and post-coup politics in Mali
Sebastian Elischer
12 Jul 2022
The military coup of August 2020 upended Mali’s fragile liberal democratic order. The junta-led transitionary government defies international pressure to fasten the return of democratically-elected rulers and constitutional rule. The ability of the...
Financing for gender equality in the Sahel and West Africa
Charlotte Goemans, Jennifer Sheahan and Seve Loudon
24 Jun 2022
The Sahel and West Africa continue to face significant challenges in advancing towards gender equality and women’s empowerment. While much progress has been made in health and educational outcomes for women and girls in the region, much more has yet...
Political violence targeting women in West Africa
Roudabeh Kishi
17 Jun 2022
Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. This is also true in West Africa. Women can be targeted in a myriad of ways, by an array of types of perpetrators, during and outside of periods of conflict and...
Urbanisation and demography in North and West Africa, 1950-2020
Olivier J. Walther
11 Nov 2021
This brief presents a factual and retrospective analysis of the relationships between urbanisation and demography in North Africa and West Africa. It shows that the process of demographic transition is now fully underway in this region. North of the...
How is life in West Africa's cities?
Abel Schumann and Sahel and West Africa Club
05 Aug 2021
The number of people living in African cities is expected to double over the next two decades. While the need to provide adequate infrastructure, create high quality jobs and manage pollution in fast growing cities has been well studied, these...
Pastoralist violence in North and West Africa
Matthew Pflaum
13 Jul 2021
This study examines the geographical and temporal evolution of violence in which pastoralists are engaged. Building upon an analysis of over 36,000 violent events in North and West Africa between January 1997 and April 2020 in which 206 pastoralist...
Non-military actors as a regional strategy in the Lake Chad region
Olajumoke Ayandele
13 Apr 2021
The purpose of this paper is to examine current regional strategies employed to counter extremism in the Lake Chad Basin region. Using the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) as a case study, the paper highlights the importance of non-military actors...
The structure of livestock trade in West Africa
Valerie C. Valerio
01 Sept 2020
This paper uses network analysis to map and characterise live animal trade in West Africa. Building on a database of 42 251 animal movements collected by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) from 2013-17, it...
Women and climate change in the Sahel
Chesney McOmber
09 Mar 2020
The purpose of this paper is to explore the gendered impacts of climate change in the Sahel. In particular, it explores the ways in which gender inequality is a critical factor in understanding vulnerability and resilience efforts concerning climate...
Long term trends across security and development in the Sahel
Daniel Eizenga
17 Sept 2019
Following the 2013 French military intervention in Mali, significant attention has been paid to issues of security and development in the Sahel. The stability of Sahelian countries and the capacity of their governments to manage social change and...
Integrating gender analysis into food & nutrition security early warning systems in West Africa
Analee Pepper
05 Apr 2019
Integrating gender dimensions into early warning systems is critical to support equitable crisis prevention and response. This paper investigates the extent to which food and nutrition security early warning systems (FNS EWS) in the Sahel and West...
Accessibility and Infrastructure in Border Cities
OECD
18 Apr 2019
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses road accessibility, transport corridors and checkpoints set up in border towns in West Africa. An innovative model shows that the population base of border towns could be 14% greater if there...
Businesses and Health in Border Cities
OECD
18 Apr 2019
This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health infrastructure in West Africa. The analysis shows that sectors crucial for regional integration are concentrated in economic capitals...