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• [Project] Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

  • This project allows BICC to continue capacity development activities for the African Union as well as for select focus states in the Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan) and in the Horn of Africa (Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti). It will complement activities implemented in the framework of its West African ‘sister’ project (Nigeria and Mali), as well as other BICC project activities on security sector reform (SSR)/disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan.BIC...

• [Project] Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

  • This project allows BICC to continue capacity development activities for the African Union as well as for select focus states in the Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan) and in the Horn of Africa (Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti). It will complement activities implemented in the framework of its West African ‘sister’ project (Nigeria and Mali), as well as other BICC project activities on security sector reform (SSR)/disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan.BIC...

• [Project] Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) Capacity Development and Technical Advice in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

  • This project allows BICC to continue capacity development activities for the African Union as well as for select focus states in the Sahel region (Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan) and in the Horn of Africa (Uganda, Somalia, Djibouti). It will complement activities implemented in the framework of its West African ‘sister’ project (Nigeria and Mali), as well as other BICC project activities on security sector reform (SSR)/disarmament demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in South Sudan.BIC...

• [Event] Balkan Fact-Finding Mission

  • At the request of the German Federal Foreign Office, BICC provided logistical support as well as accompanied a delegation of representatives of the ECOWAS Commission and National Small Arms Commissions from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana on a study visit to the Balkans from 9-13 September.
  • Friday, 13 September 2019: At the request of the German Federal Foreign Office, BICC provided logistical support as well as accompanied a delegation of representatives of the ECOWAS Commission and National Small Arms Commissions from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana on a study visit to the Balkans from 9-13 September.

• [Publication] The Spread of Jihadism in the Sahel. Part 1

  Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

  • Following the occupation of northern Mali by jihadist groups in 2012, the national and international military response failed to counter their influence. Having spread to neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso and Niger, jihadism is now on the doorstep of some countries in the Gulf of Guinea, such as Togo and Benin. This article analyses in three parts the main factors that have been exploited (instrumentalised) by these jihadists groups in the Sahel, a strategy that they could...

• [Publication] The Spread of Jihadism in the Sahel. Part 2

  Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

  • Following the occupation of northern Mali by jihadist groups in 2012, the national and international military response failed to counter their influence. Having spread to neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso and Niger, jihadism is now on the doorstep of some countries in the Gulf of Guinea, such as Togo and Benin. This article analyses in three parts the main factors that have been exploited (instrumentalised) by these jihadist groups in the Sahel, a strategy that they could ...

• [Publication] The Spread of Jihadism in the Sahel. Part 1

  Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

  • Following the occupation of northern Mali by jihadist groups in 2012, the national and international military response failed to counter their influence. Having spread to neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso and Niger, jihadism is now on the doorstep of some countries in the Gulf of Guinea, such as Togo and Benin. This article analyses in three parts the main factors that have been exploited (instrumentalised) by these jihadists groups in the Sahel, a strategy that they could...

• [Publication] The Spread of Jihadism in the Sahel. Part 2

  Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

  • Following the occupation of northern Mali by jihadist groups in 2012, the national and international military response failed to counter their influence. Having spread to neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso and Niger, jihadism is now on the doorstep of some countries in the Gulf of Guinea, such as Togo and Benin. This article analyses in three parts the main factors that have been exploited (instrumentalised) by these jihadist groups in the Sahel, a strategy that they could ...

• [Publication] Today’s solution, tomorrow’s problem? An analysis of West African practices in the use of pro-government militias.

  • In this Paper, I address the question of whether and under what circumstances the deployment of pro-government militias (PGMs) can reduce violence against civilians, specifically in the Sahel. My analysis— based on a literature review and case studies on Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria—suggests that rather than representing a solution, PGMs tend to become part of the problem. In most cases, PGMs actively carry out acts of violence against civilians or passively cont...

• [Publication] Today’s solution, tomorrow’s problem? An analysis of West African practices in the use of pro-government militias.

  • In this Paper, I address the question of whether and under what circumstances the deployment of pro-government militias (PGMs) can reduce violence against civilians, specifically in the Sahel. My analysis— based on a literature review and case studies on Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria—suggests that rather than representing a solution, PGMs tend to become part of the problem. In most cases, PGMs actively carry out acts of violence against civilians or passively cont...