Victor Angelo

New uncertainties next door in the Greater Sahel Victor Angelo   In 1990, the Chadian rebel leader Idriss Déby returned to the country...

A ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel was held on Friday, 12 June 2020 and co-chaired by Mauritania, the EU ...

Another link on the Sahel security situation: https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-complex-and-growing-threat-of-militant-islamist-grou...

https://www.securityconference.de/en/media-library/munich-security-conference-2019/video/parallel-panel-discussion-security-in-the-sahel-tr...

The Chibok girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram a year ago. And many other Nigerian girls and women have also been taken hostage by this ter...

At the very beginning of the year my magazine´s editor-in-chief at Visão asked me to write about Africa in 2015. I did. And I spent most o...

The good news is that the Chadian army has now been ordered to move into the Boko Haram area and fight the terrorists. The Chadians are by...

We should not lose sight of Boko Haram. They are a major threat to the populations of the region and to stability in Nigeria and the Lake ...

Knowing as I know the players, I am afraid the announcement made by the Nigerian presidency regarding an accord with Boko Haram might just...

The Iraqi crisis reminds us of how difficult it is to assist a country that is deeply divided along ethnic and cultural lines. The fractur...

Today´s summit on Boko Haram, convened at the Elysée Palace by President François Hollande, should be seen as a constructive initiative. ...

At the beginning of the week, the terrorist group Boko Haram attacked a boarding school in Northern Nigeria and kidnapped over 130 student...

I spent a good deal of the day looking at the new developments in the Central Africa Republic. And I came to the conclusion that the depar...

When it comes to political decisions, the Central African Republic remains outside the main radar screens, notwithstanding all the dramati...

Since Saturday, two days ago, ten flights have taken place between Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, and N´Djaména, the...

I spent a bit of the day on the news and comments being produced about the dramatic events in the Central African Republic (CAR). And I en...

There is increased noise about the possibility of a UN peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). The friends of that c...

The Central African Republic (CAR) is now a failed state. The capital city, Bangui, is controlled by armed groups of uncertain origin....

France is placing undue pressure on the UN Secretariat regarding the deployment of peacekeepers to the recently approved mission in Mali. ...

During my work with President Francois Bozizé of the Central African Republic (CAR) – from 2008 to 2010 – I always felt that he was too i...