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Vol 67 No 1

Published 9th January 2026


More volatile, more unpredictable, more violent

For Goïta, Tiani and Traoré, the year offers bleak prospects of any progress in the war on jihad

Niger is the second Sahel state (Burkina Faso was the first in 2023) to announce a draconian national mobilisation. A resolution adopted by its cabinet of ministers on Boxing Day ordered that every citizen must ‘respond immediately’ to a call-up. Once requisitioned, they are not allowed to communicate about their situation, in the name of national security.

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