Posts in Africa
THE FALADIÉ DISPLACED PERSONS’ CAMP

Since 2016, the growing insecurity in Central Mali has forced thousands of people to seek refuge in makeshift camps in the cities, leaving everything behind.

One such refugee camp sprung up on a stretch of vacant land in the Faladiè neighborhood of Bamako, Mali’s capital city, located between a park of livestock pens and an abandoned garbage dump. This site now constitutes the largest informal refugee camp in Bamako. In April 2020, a large section of the camp was ravaged by fire. When the ashes cooled, most residents soon moved back, with nowhere else to go.

Read More
Now available: The Limits of Democracy and the Postcolonial Nation State

This is a book about politics, peace and disarmament: indispensable for students of West Africa, of Sahara security, of development and disarmament, of terrorists and migrations.

There are some original ideas to discover and some challenging political themes that offer very new ways of looking at the problems of Africa.

Read More
Sister Cities International (SCI) Speaks out Against Racism

I have been working with Sister Cities International for fifteen years now. SCI is a great international civil society movement supporting friendship between peoples, promoting peace while developing educational and other activities between cities. I totally support the following statement against racism, issued by SCI.

Read More
Syria TMS article by Dr Chandra Muzaffar March 2021

Dr Muzaffar is completely correct in his critical analysis of Western policy, which has proved disastrous for Iraq and Syria. Syria’s civil war can only be understood through the prism of Iraq and the destructive and nonsensical “Shock and Awe” delivered by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 2001.

Read More
REMEMBERING MY FRIEND ADAM THIAM

Adam contributed regularly and brilliantly to international media such as Radio France International, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Africable, Jeune Afrique …. His work for peace and clean government included exposés of Cocaine smuggling from Colombia, and peace building with his essay Centre du Mali : enjeux et dangers d’une crise négligée (2017). Several presidents of Mali called upon his services to run their press offices.

Read More