Who are the Sahel terrorists?
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President Issoufou pays tribute to the Nigerien soldiers who died during the Inates attack on December 13, 2019. RFI / Moussa Kaka
By: Alain Foka
21 min
They sow fear and desolation throughout the sub-region.
They massacre women and children in markets, Westerners and aid workers in tourist sites, attack soldiers, nationals and foreigners.
No one can define their goal, their ideology.
Who are these terrorists who have bloodied the Sahel for ten years?
What are they looking for and who is funding them?
Publicity
With our guests:
- Colonel Hassane Kone
, former associate researcher at the Institute for Security Studies at the Regional Office for West Africa, the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin (ISS)
- Mahamat Saleh Annadif
, representative Special Secretary of the United Nations in Mali, head of the Minusma
- Pierre Buyoya
, former President of the Republic of Burundi and High Representative of the African Union
- Bakary Sambe
, director of the Observatory of radicalisms and religious conflicts in Africa and think tank Tumbuktu.
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