Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/30/2023
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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Categories

• Africa
• Humanitarian Crisis
• Security
• The United Nations
• Webinar
• Zoom Event

Cost:
0 USD
Contact Person:
Programs Department
Email:
events@mei.edu
Website:
https://mei.edu/events/security-and-stabilization-africa-sahel
Phone:
202-785-1141
Organization:
Middle East Institute

The Africa Study Group and the Middle East Institute are pleased to invite you to the third discussion in a series focused on the Sahel and Sahara regions. Worsening political instability in the Sahel is increasingly garnering international attention and concern. In September 2022, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted that non-functional state institutions in the region have fostered a growing humanitarian crisis and allowed non-state armed groups to step into the vacuum and consolidate their hold on local areas and populations. This fast-deteriorating regional security situation may metastasize into a global threat if it leads to the resurgence of transnational terrorist and violent extremist groups capable of striking far beyond the African continent.

MEI invites you to a virtual panel discussion that will address the prospects of and challenges associated with a potential international response to the multi-faceted crisis facing the Sahel.