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The Sahel Research Group at the University of Florida. We study politics, religion, security, trade, literature and languages in the West African Sahel https://sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu/
NEW - Circuits and movement in religious transnationalism: a Tijani community between Mbour, Fez and Mantes-la-Jolie, by SRG Abdoulaye Kane www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4FVDP...
NEW DIIS Working Paper - Wars over checkpoints. Nine theses on the politics of roadblocks in conflict-affected borderlands, by Peer Schouten, SRG Olivier Walther and XCEPT team www.diis.dk/en/research/...
NEW -Embodied Religiosity. Religious Practices among the Baye Fall, by Macodou Fall brill.com/view/journal...
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Today, several members of the Sahel Research Group attended the workshop "Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel" organized by the University of Florida Center for Global Islamic Studies and The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
Our colleagues from the SRG project on the impact of climate change in the Sahel are meeting in Dakar this week with their collaborators in the region from Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad.
The expansion of JNIM has brought about major changes in the lives of Fulani women in the Sahel. Today, we have the opportunity to discuss this fascinating topic with Corinne Dufka
For the first Sahel seminar of 2026, Baba Adou and Mohammed Sanda led a discussion on Imam Dicko and the challenges in finding a religious comprise in Mali
Happy to see our colleagues Farès Davion interviewed in this blog discussing the future of the AES military force horontv.net/force-unifie...
Should the Sahel Research Group stay on Bluesky? Yes? No? Whatever? Is there still anybody interested in the West African Sahel out there?
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NEW - Towards praetorian-led electoral authoritarianism? Examining the post-coup transitions in francophone Africa, by Dr. Sebastian Elischer www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What would we be without our amazing doctoral students and recently minted PhDs?
We are delighted to announce that Corinne Dufka, lead author of the XCEPT report "Peuhl women’s lives under JNIM in the Central Sahel", will discuss her work with us at the Sahel Seminar on 30 January in Gainesville.
Kidnapping for ransom fuels the expansion of jihadist groups in the Sahel, argue our colleagues Alexander Laskaris and Olivier Walther in @africa.theconversation.com theconversation.com/kidnapping-f...
"West Africa’s transport infrastructure has become a target and a weapon", write Steve Radil, Olivier Walther and Alex Thurston in Africa Defense Forum this week adf-magazine.com/2025/12/west...
The emphasis placed on external actors in the Malian crisis has contributed to underestimating the role played by successive Malian governments in the deterioration of the security situation, argue Alexander Laskaris and Olivier Walther in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/03/m...
More efforts should be dedicated to tracking intra-regional trade in agricultural products and livestock in West Africa, explain Lacey Harris-Coble and Olivier Walther during today’s Sahel Seminar theconversation.com/west-africas...
This Friday at 3:30pm, Visiting Scholar Alex Laskaris will speak on the success of autocracy in Africa, reflecting both on his tenure as the US Ambassador to Chad and the work he has been doing at the University of Florida internationalcenter.ufl.edu/baraza-chad-...
From High and Dry to Low and Wet: The Political Ecology of Urban Flooding in Nouakchott, by @corysatter.bsky.social satter.substack.com/p/from-high-...
Latest News Brief on the Sahel — Click on link to read and subscribe! mailchi.mp/90988f84fcb7...
Our own @babaadou.bsky.social discusses the recent blockade of Bamako with TV5 Monde information.tv5monde.com/afrique/asph...
TODAY at 11:45am - Andrew Lebovich will give a talk entitled "Things fall apart: exchanges, observations and perspectives on revolution between Algerian and West African Reformist Muslims" as part of a workshop organized by the UF Center for Global Islamic Studies calendar.ufl.edu/clas_african...
Bamako is under siege after more than 10 years of civil war. The Sahel Research Group and Alex Thurston discuss whether the Jihadist blockade could lead to the fall of the Malian capital in The Conversation theconversation.com/jihadists-ha...
Burkina Faso Dissolves National Electoral Commission — Read more here and check out our past news briefs on the Sahel: mailchi.mp/3366fa81b26a...
Outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever across Mauritania and Senegal — Read more in our latest news brief: mailchi.mp/f70fab52ba47...
Why West Africa needs better trade data - Our latest blog in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/west-africas...
Leonardo Villalon recently gave an insightful presentation on "Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Countries of the African Sahel" at the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó, in the city of Quibdo, Columbia.
