Category: Mauritania

• 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.

• Return to the Mothership

  January 17, 2014

  Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, North Africa, Senegal, Travel

  Yesterday was my first day back at CNA, the place I’ve affectionately called “The Mothership” for the past fifteen months of my assignment at the Center for Complex Operations. While at CCO, I was working on an analysis of the Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership (TSCTP), which is an interagency U.S. government program to counter Read.