Sub Saharan Africa

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Reports and papers

Exploration du risque d'extrémisme violent à la frontière entre le nord du Bénin et le Nigeria

18 Jun 2024 - 14:39
Kars de Bruijne
Source: Tempête de sable à Arewa Dandi Kangiwa - Argungu Road Kebbi State, nord-ouest du Nigeria. © Irene Becker
Back to overview
Liaisons dangereuses

Pendant plus d'une décennie, chercheurs et politiques ont craint un lien entre les groupes extrémistes du Sahel et le bassin du lac Tchad. Depuis 2014, des études soulignent le potentiel malheureux du Bénin à servir de charnière géographique. Jusqu'à présent, les preuves ont été largement absentes.

External authors
Clara Gehrling - ancienne stagiaire à l'Institut Clingendael et responsable régionale pour le Nigeria à l'Institut Heidelberg

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Reports and papers

Exploring the risk of violent extremism along the border between Northern Benin and Nigeria

18 Jun 2024 - 14:38
Kars de Bruijne
Source: Sandstorm in Arewa Dandi Kangiwa - Argungu Road Kebbi State, northwest Nigeria. © Irene Becker
Back to overview
Dangerous Liaisons
In the cross-border Borgou region (Benin), a collaboration between Nigerian and Sahelian insurgents is in the making along Benin’s border with Nigeria. These signals are extremely concerning, and action is needed.
External authors
Clara Gehrling - former intern at the Clingendael Institute & Nigeria regional lead at the Heidelberg Institute

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Alerts

The Sahel’s new geopolitics

17 Jun 2024 - 11:29
Andrew Lebovich
Source: Reuters
Back to overview
“Sovereignty” means never having to say you’re sorry
The ongoing American military exit from Niger has focused international attention not just on the Sahel, but on the swirling and increasingly complex geopolitics in the region.
Malte Lierl

Malte Lierl

Senior Research Fellow

Expertise

  • Conflict and Fragility

Regions

  • Sub Saharan Africa

Malte Lierl has over 15 years of experience at the intersection of research and international development cooperation. He specializes in governance, political economy and state-society relations. He has worked on problems of decentralization and local public service delivery, local government performance, citizen engagement, corruption, transparency and accountability, as well as informal and hybrid governance. 

My work

0

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Policy briefs

Stabilisation and the Central Sahel

29 May 2024 - 09:50
Ekaterina Golovko
Kars de Bruijne
Source: German soldiers from the UN contingent MINUSMA stand together during a visit of German Defence Minister von der Leyen to Camp Castor in Gao / Reuters
Back to overview
Supporting the state?

The international community hasn’t been successful in its efforts to support ‘stabilisation’ in the central Sahel. To learn lessons from recent engagement, this policy brief seeks to make three contributions to an already long list of ‘strategic misfits’.

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Alerts

Sudan: From hunger to death

24 May 2024 - 16:33
Source: Community kitchen in Khartoum
Back to overview
An estimate of excess mortality in Sudan, based on currently available information
A scenario in which the hungriest people are given small amounts of extra food by others leads to an estimated excess mortality of about 2.5 million people.
External authors
Timmo Gaasbeek - PhD in Disaster Studies

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Alerts

Political unrest and migration in Senegal

30 Apr 2024 - 13:01
Ekaterina Golovko
Source: Migrant boats in the Canary Islands / Reuters
Back to overview
Fighting for a future
Combating irregular migration became a way of supporting the repression carried out by the Senegalese authorities, largely because of the absence of legal pathways for migration.

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Alerts

Internet Lifeline Sudan

11 Apr 2024 - 11:23
Guido Lanfranchi
Moneera Yassien
Ahmed Elmurtada
Source: El Tayeb Siddig / Reuters
Back to overview
Ensuring unhindered internet access is key to helping the Sudanese people survive the war
Telecommunications disruptions have taken place against the backdrop of a violent war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which in their reckless competition for power have dragged the whole country and its 45 million people into an abyss.
External authors
Ahmed Elmurtada
Ahmed Elmurtada
Cybersecurity engineer

Events

Conflict and Fragility

Sounding the alarm on Sudan’s hunger crisis
06 Mar 2024 16:00 - 17:30
Source: ©Reuters
Back to results
Introduction
Clingendael's Anette Hoffmann and fellow experts discuss the scale of the Sudan food crisis and the urgent next steps required.
Organiser
Anette Hoffmann
Anette Hoffmann
Senior Research Fellow

Location:

This event will be livestreamed

Show in google maps

Research

Conflict and Fragility

Policy briefs

From Catastrophe to Famine: Immediate action needed in Sudan to contain mass starvation

08 Feb 2024 - 15:26
Anette Hoffmann
Source: Food distribution Omdurman - Sudan / Reuters
Back to overview
This policy brief assesses the consequences of the conflict in Sudan on the country's food system, attributing the food shortages to the deliberate policies of Sudanese generals. The brief predicts a catastrophic situation with seven million people facing famine by June 2024, which entails that urgent action is needed.
Subscribe to Sub Saharan Africa