L’insécurité au Niger après l’arrivée au pouvoir de la junte : un défi persistant et croissant

3 décembre 2024

This briefing is also available in English. Le 26 juillet 2023, le général Abdourahamane Tiani a renversé le président démocratiquement élu du Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, arguant d’une mauvaise gestion économique du gouvernement et de son manque de progrès dans la lutte contre les différentes insurrections dans le pays.1 Ce vendredi 6 décembre 2024 marquera le 500ème jour au pouvoir de la junte. L’util


Shifting frontlines: Visualizing the evolution of the M23’s territorial influence in early 2024

20 juin 2024

In early 2024, IPIS, ASSODIP, and DIIS published a report on the stakes and motivations of the “March 23 Movement” (M23), a rebellion causing serious insecurity and humanitarian suffering in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The movement took up arms again in 2021, and it rapidly seized vast territories in the south-east of North Kivu province in 2022, with military support from the


From the plains to the parks: an overview of the Burkina Faso – Benin border’s continued insurgency issue

7 mars 2024

On January 1 2024, insurgents linked to the al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) clashed with state troops near Banikoara in north-western Benin, resulting in five casualties. The violence is part of a broader trend which has seen the border area between the Kompienga and Tapoa provinces of Burkina Faso’s Est region and t


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M23 crisis flares again in North Kivu: context, dynamics and risks 

16 novembre 2023

Past October, violence resurged in North Kivu province, as clashes intensified between the Movement of March 23 (M23) and various local militias, as well as the Congolese army (FARDC). An additional 200,000 people have been displaced last month, exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation in the province which already counted over 590,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) due to the M23 crisis