Victor Angelo

  1. Situation critique du Mali Mali est au bord de l’effondrement en tant qu’État, la majorité de son territoire étant menacée par des grou...

Mali, a vast country and a mosaic of cultures, is just two steps from Europe and one step from collapsing as a state. Earlier this week, the...

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

In the Sahel, a lot of military and little politics Victor Angelo   The call came from Bamako. On the other end of the line was a form...

How about lunch in the Sahel? Victor Angelo   A few years ago, my wife and I were invited to an unusual Christmas lunch. The invitatio...

  In today’s Diário de Notícias (Lisbon) Notes on Mali Victor Angelo     Mali is a fascinating country, diverse in its landscapes ...

  The serious political situation Mali is going through raises in my mind some fundamental questions about the political performance of the ...

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

Thanks to a friend and the digital technology, I could watch the sun setting below the horizon of Bamako, the capital of Mali. The Niger ...

This weekend there was another massacre in Mali. This time, the victims were ethnic Dogon villagers living in the central region of the c...

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...

After a discussion this morning with a Malian friend, who is a former senior UN official, what I retained can be easily summarised in a fe...

It is with deep sadness that we have learned about the loss of another five peacekeepers deployed in Mali with the UN mission. They were k...

Another day, another terrorist attack. This time the target is an international hotel in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. In the ...

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...

There is now an “archipelago of collapse” that goes from Mali to Iraq, through Libya, Egypt and Syria. It´s like an oil slick that tends t...

The Football World Cup started today in São Paulo. The TV screens will be full of soccer news during the next few weeks. At a time when th...

I had a long discussion today about the current impact of the UN missions on peace and security. It all started with a silent crisis, Guin...

The EU and the P5 – the five permanent countries in the Security Council of the UN – took long to recognize the strategic importance of th...