by El Hadj Djitteye | Nov 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Second World War is indelibly marked by the United States’ use of atomic bombs against Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), resulting in irreversible consequences for the environment and massive loss of human life. It is crucial to understand what a nuclear...
by El Hadj Djitteye | Oct 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
As the founder and executive director of the Timbuktu Center for Strategic Studies on the Sahel, I was fortunate to present my work October 3 at the Foley Institute. I spoke on climate change, conflict, and migration in the West African Sahel and then had a...
by El Hadj Djitteye | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Context analysis of violent extremism in Mali and Burkina Faso The Sahel region of West Africa has been the epicenter of terrorism for over a decade due to the occupation of al-Qaeda and Islamic State-affiliated organizations, non-state armed groups, auto-defense...
by El Hadj Djitteye | Mar 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has officially launched its 2023 Global Terrorism Index. On Wednesday, March 15th, at 11 a.m. ET, I was fortunate to be a part of a panel of experts who examined what is working, how global trends around terrorism and...
by El Hadj Djitteye | Jul 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
The West African Sahel region is land locked, arid, and poor. In the past ten years, this region—which includes Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and northern Nigeria—has become home to one of Africa’s most violent and successful Islamist extremism...