The War on Terr in the Sahel

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Over the past decade, the sahel has been hit hard by these armed conflicts that have crossed borders drawn in french and russian foran intervention. The problem emerged when this element of islam and terrorism became more alarming in the eyes of the west. So at some point there was a convergance between the twar rebels and e and the anlithardists. By western here to justify its intervention, they needed to simplify or simplify the idea of the conflict. Hence this islamist terrorist war," he says. He adds: "The French state has settled on islamist terrorists"

Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism. Idrissa’s work: newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/rahmane-idrissa/coup-contrecouplrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/rahmane-idrissa/countries-without-currency Special outro music from Ali Farka Touré. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: haymarketbooks.org/books/1887-inside-the-second-wave-of-feminism