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Senegal faces its industrial destiny: rebuilding the economy by SMEs, training and value chains

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Industrialization remains one of the most repeated keywords of Senegalese public discourse since independence. Each government makes it a priority, each strategic plan reactivates the promise, and every development projection assumes that it is the condition for a prosperous future. Yet, despite six decades of ambition, Senegal remains a still insufficiently industrialized, dependent economy.

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State Borders: Anatomy of a Sahel Fragmented between Nomadism, Jihadism and Political Collapse

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In the Sahel, one of the most fragile and strategic spaces on the African continent, is a crisis of rarely equal magnitude, where historical, environmental, political and geopolitical dynamics of exceptional complexity intersect. This vast semi-arid band, once regulated by subtle balances between nomadic pastors and sedentary farmers, sees these mechanisms today ...

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Europe sidelined by Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy: In-depth reflections on a document that upsets global balance

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The publication of the US National Security Strategy of November 2025, chaired by Donald Trump, represents a pivotal moment in the contemporary history of transatlantic relations. Europe, taken by the virulence of words, suddenly finds itself accused of civilizational weakening, institutional drift and economic regression by its strategic ally the ...

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Beyond closed doors: the entrepreneurial dynamics of minorities in France

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Despite a Republican discourse based on equal opportunities, France continues to allow mechanisms of discrimination to flourish that impede access to employment for persons perceived as having an immigrant background. Faced with these doors that close from the internships and even in the most qualified recruitments, a new dynamic is emerging: ...

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When weapons recast the law: paradoxes of legitimacy in coup d'état regimes

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In many states weakened by corruption, institutional failure and the exhaustion of the social pact, coups d'état emerged as brutal but often applauded ruptures. Acclaimed for expelling discredited regimes, the putschists then claim legitimacy based on popular membership and elections that they organize themselves. But what is this...

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Coup d'état in Africa: when the hope of peoples becomes the tool of their servitude

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In many African countries, recent political transitions reveal a striking paradox: the more people aspire to a frank break with authoritarian regimes that sternize, the more the dynamics expected to open up a new horizon of emancipation seem to precipitate societies into strengthened forms of domination. Young people, in particular, invest in coups d'état ...

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Wahhabism, state bankruptcy and Jihadism: the underside of an explosive recomposition in the Sahel

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In the shadow of political crises, the collapse of states and the rise of jihadism, another silent but decisive transformation crosses the Sahel: the progressive rooting of Wahhabism, which has become one of the invisible drivers of the religious, social and political recomposition of the region. Far from simplistic readings that assimilate rigorist doctrine and armed violence, ...

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Guinea-Bissau facing its upset destiny: a country with exceptional potential but trapped in its structural weaknesses

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Guinea-Bissau remains one of the most striking paradoxes on the African continent: a territory with a prodigious natural heritage, immense agricultural potential and scarce tourist wealth, but a prisoner of chronic instability that prevents it from turning these assets into real development. Since its independence ripped out in pain, this small African state of ...

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Europe in the strategic impasse: between military dependence and risk of escalation

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As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Europe discovers the extent of its strategic vulnerability. Depending on the US military umbrella, faced with an offensive and unpredictable Russia, and subject to increasing budgetary pressure, the European Union is caught up in a spiral of military, economic and political ramifications. Far from sovereign control ...

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When Mali crumbles, it's all West Africa that trembles

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Mali is now going through one of the darkest periods in its contemporary history. Located in the heart of the Sahel, Senegal's border, this country once symbol of cultural diversity and popular resilience is now stuck in a multidimensional crisis: political, security, economic and social. But this crisis is no longer in Bamako. It radiates...

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