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Sahel Regional Security Dynamics: A Multifaceted Analysis (as of late 2025–early 2026)

The modern Sahel crisis traces back to the 2011 Libyan collapse, which flooded the region with weapons and fighters, reigniting Tuareg rebellions in northern Mali in 2012. This enabled Islamist groups to seize territory, leading to French intervention (Operation Serval in 2013, later Barkhane). Initial gains were undermined by persistent weak governance: corruption, urban-rural divides, ethnic tensions (e.g., Fulani pastoralists vs. agricultural communities), and state absence in rural peripheries.

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Xenophobia as an Economy: How Violence Becomes a Political and Financial Instrument in South Africa by Lawson Akhigbe

The tragedy is not just that the poor are fighting each other. It is that, in doing so, they are unwitting participants in a system that depends on exactly that outcome.

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The Great Clacton Escape: Can Nigel Farage Outrun His Own Paperwork? By Lawson Akhigbe

Farage’s latest stunt, abruptly resigning as the MP for Clacton to trigger a theatrical summer by-election is a masterpiece in the fine art of political distraction.

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The Log in Our Eye: The Quiet Tragedy of Nigeria’s “Lost” Inmates by Lawson Akhigbe

The grim reality of the Nigerian justice system was laid bare recently in a devastating report by Arise News. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy named Gospel Kinani disappeared from Ogoniland, Rivers State. For nearly two decades, his family searched for him in vain; the profound grief even claimed the lives of both his parents. Eighteen years later, Gospel was finally found not dead, but alive, broken, and languishing inside the Port Harcourt Correctional Center at 33 years old.

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