Although Mali has longstanding military ties with France, Russia is filling the void left in the region following France’s withdrawal of forces from Mali. According to a recent French-language article…
In October, France and Greece announced a “Strategic Partnership on Defence and Security,” following several defense deals including Greece’s purchase of three French warships and 24 Rafale combat planes. The…
On 27 September, the left-center French publication Le Monde, which reports on global affairs from an analytical perspective, featured the excerpted article about France’s response to the possibility of Russian…
The Algerian government is increasingly concerned with the presence of potentially hostile armed groups in areas near its southern border with Mali and Niger. Several high-level Algerian officials made public…
Russia is addressing its aging amphibious landing craft fleet by giving priority to upgrades of its Arctic capability, underscoring Russia’s anticipation of the growing importance of the Northern Sea Route.…
France faces a dilemma in its former colony with the death of long-term Chadian President Idriss Déby. As African Arguments, a scholarly nonpartisan publication from the Royal African Society reports,…
France is home to roughly 65,000 Chechens, Muslim refugees and immigrants from two wars with Russia—a very small number of whom have participated in jihadist actions at home and abroad.…
In July members of the Malian Armed Forces conducted a coup that deposed the country’s leader, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Mali has not changed its foreign relations posture since the coup.…
The local affiliate of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Sahel is known as Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS). The group acquired increased notoriety after being…
On 24 August former French colonel and current professor and political commentator, Michel Goya, posted the excerpted French-language article on his blogspot.com blog. Goya sought to exploit his own military…