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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
21 August 2020
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta ('IBK') abused his position as president of Mali – but his ousting further destabilises an already volatile region, Rahmane Idrissa writes in an article for The Guardian. The coup of 18 August does not bode well for two overlapping (and troubled) sections of west Africa: the Sahel and the Francophone countries.
21 August 2020
Mirjam de Bruijn, currently in Mali for 'Voice4Thought', has given several interviews about the situation in Mali after the coup on 18 August. 'The international community should not condemn this development, but accompany it', she said to daily newspaper Trouw.
21 August 2020
According to Rahmane Idrissa in an article in the Guardian, the swift toppling of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta as president of Mali on 18 August, does not bode well for two overlapping (and troubled) sections of west Africa: the Sahel and the Francophone countries. Mirjam de Bruijn gave several interviews to Dutch media about the situation in Mali after the coup. She urges the international community to initiate a dialogue instead of condeming the coup.
20 August 2020
Both African migration and queer Africa are loaded with negative stereotypes in global discourse, including misunderstandings on the interconnected reasons why marginalised people migrate. In Senegal, the open-endedness of both migration and of queerness has the possibility to create surprising networks and collaborations between queer Senegalese around the world, offering directions for a different kind of queer activism, writes Loes Oudenhuijsen in the ASCL Africanist Blog.
19 August 2020
Is Africa still the 'war-torn continent' or can we see a change to peace and stability? In her contribution to the Clingendael Spectator series 'Africa: 60 years of independence' ASCL researcher Lidewyde Berckmoes describes three trends in interventions for peace and stability in Africa.
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