{"id":3996,"date":"2021-10-01T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:05:23","slug":"in-the-sahel-france-and-the-united-states-have-converging-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/10\/01\/in-the-sahel-france-and-the-united-states-have-converging-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Sahel, France and the United States have converging interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Yvan Guichaoua interviewed on military cooperation in the Sahel for La Croix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2614\/guichaoua-yvan\">Yvan Guichaoua<\/a>, Professor in conflict analysis at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\">Brussels School of International Studies<\/a> (University of Kent) discusses Franco-American cooperation in the Sahel, in the light of the crisis between Paris and Washington after the torpedoing of a contract for the sale of French submarines to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahel countries, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad, face many challenges, including chronic insecurity, rising extremism, a lack of economic prospects, and poor access to education, employment and essential services such as water and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>One for our French speakers only I&#8217;m afraid, read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.la-croix.com\/Monde\/Sahel-France-Etats-Unis-interets-convergent-2021-09-22-1201176686\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvan Guichaoua interviewed on military cooperation in the Sahel for La Croix. Yvan Guichaoua, Professor in conflict analysis at the Brussels School of International Studies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/10\/01\/in-the-sahel-france-and-the-united-states-have-converging-interests\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":3997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}