Niger – Peace Research Institute Oslo

07/02/2020
MoD Funding for Project on Security Forces in the Sahel

The Sahel region is increasingly affected by transnational security threats which spill across national borders, such as insurgency, terror attacks, uncontrolled migration and illicit trafficking in commodities. A key reason for the persistence of those threats is the poor performance of the region’s security forces.

Marie Sandnes (2021)
The G5 Sahel Joint Force: Operationalisation and Dependency on External Actors

PRIO Policy Brief

Nicholas Marsh, Øystein H. Rolandsen, Julian Karssen & Marie Sandnes (2020)
Compounding Fragmentation: Security Force Assistance to Fragile States in the Sahel and Horn of Africa

PRIO Paper

Pierre Dehaene & Nina Wilén (2020)
Challenges with Security Force Assistance in Niger: Understanding Local Context and Aligning Interests

Report - Other

Nina Wilén (2020)
Female peacekeepers’ added burden

Journal Article in International Affairs

Jørgen Carling (2016)
West and Central Africa

Book Chapter in Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: a Global Review of the Emerging Evidence Base

Cyril Obi(ed.) & Siri Aas Rustad(eds.) (2011)
Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence

Edited Volume