Sahel

From Mali to Sudan, armed groups govern land and water where structural adjustment destroyed the state — our latest dossier shows that the Sahel’s crisis is not climate conflict but class war driven by imperialism.

In the Sahel, growing conflict is rooted in class struggle, shaped by imperialist extraction, and intensified by the climate catastrophe.

When Trump threatens to invade Nigeria over alleged Christian genocide, he recycles old colonial tactics wrapped in ‘humanitarian’ rhetoric — while Nigerians demand Hands Off.

On the heels of popular military coups, how are Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger returning to a path of sovereignty while navigating a legacy of dependency and internal-external security challenges?

In July 2015, social and political movements gathered for the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference and set in motion what would become Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A decade later, we take stock of our…

The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel.

From the mid-nineteenth century, most countries of the Africa’s Sahel came under French colonial rule. Today, neocolonial structures maintain French domination in the region. Each time the people of the Sahel have risen, they have…

Military coups in Niger and other Sahel countries represent broad, discarded sections of the population. Now, France and other Western countries are pushing for a military intervention in Niger, however, the people cry ‘La France,…

The coups in the Sahel are coups against the conditions of life afflicting most people in the region, conditions set by the theft of their sovereignty by multinational corporations and their old colonial ruler, France.…