Sahel: how far will the descent into hell go?

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Demonstration in Bamako, Mali, April 5, 2019 © Reuters / Keita Amadou

By: Chantal Lorho Follow

Specter of civil war in Mali, recurrent attacks in Burkina Faso, kidnappings in Benin, jihadist incursions in Togo and Ghana: can the Sahelian powder keg rock West Africa?

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4 guests 

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Célestin-Alexis Agbessi,

researcher at EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)


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Nicolas Normand,

former French ambassador to Mali, author of "

The Big Book of Africa

" at Eyrolles


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Serge Michailof

, researcher at IRIS, former director of operations at AFD (Agence Française de Développement), author of "

Africanistan

" at Fayard


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Adam Thiam,

columnist in Mali.

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