Category: AQIM

• The Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership: Building Partner Capacity to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Sahel & Maghreb

  May 24, 2014

  Algeria, Ansar Dine, AQIM, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, North Africa, Senegal, U.S. Africa Strategy

  A few months ago, I published the study I had been working on during my IPA Assignment at the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University – The Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership – Building Partner Capacity to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism. The study discusses the origins of TSCTP, which is rather unique by U.S. Read.

• Security Challenges in Libya and the Sahel (CNA Workshop Report)

  December 19, 2012

  AQIM, Arab Spring, Libya, Mali, MNLA, North Africa, Terrorism, Tuareg

  Over the past two years, the world has witnessed a redrawing of the geopolitical map of the Middle East and North Africa. The responsibility for regional security and stability – which Western governments once relied on the area’s authoritarian regimes to ensure – now falls to the transitional or newly elected governments that replaced the Read.

• In near term, containment may be the name of the game in Mali

  December 12, 2012

  Ansar Dine, AQIM, ECOWAS, Mali, Somalia, Terrorism, United Nations

  If you’re following the news on Mali, you’ve no doubt seen the most recent developments in the political crisis in Bamako in which the military junta “encouraged” or “facilitated” the resignation of PM Cheikh Modibo Diarra on Tuesday. (For thorough roundup of analyses and reactions to this incident, I would refer you here). Two months ago, Read.

• UN inches closer to approving ECOWAS intervention in Mali

  October 14, 2012

  Ansar Dine, AQIM, ECOWAS, Mali, MNLA, Tuareg

  Last week, the situation in Mali received some attention at the UN Security Council, which resulted in the council adopting Resolution 2071. However, if you look closely at the wording of the resolution, you’ll see that we’re still a ways from an ECOWAS-led military intervention in Mali. You may recall that back in July, UNSC passed Resolution 2056 which expressed the council’s readiness Read.

• Calls Continue for Military Intervention in Mali

  July 7, 2012

  Ansar Dine, AQIM, ECOWAS, Mali, MNLA, Terrorism, Tuareg

  In June, the African Union (AU) Peace & Security Council called upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to endorse the deployment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Standby Force to ensure the security of the transitional institutions; restructure and reorganize the Malian security and defense forces; and restore State authority over Read.

• Instability in Mali Complicates Regional Approach to AQIM

  April 5, 2012

  AQIM, Mali, MNLA, Tuareg

  (Originally published in World Politics Review on April 5, 2012) Over the weekend, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) seized Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu, the three major cities of northern Mali that lie within the region the Tuareg rebel group refers to as “Azawad.” This development highlights the inability of the military-led Read.