James Barnett

December 4, 2023
West Africa’s Compounding Security Challenges
In the summer of 2023, it looked for a moment that West Africa was at risk of a regional inter-state war of the sorts it had not seen since the 1990s.
November 28, 2023
Blood and Oil: The Ongoing Battle for the Niger Delta
October 3, 2023
Progress and Setbacks in Somalia’s War Against al-Shabaab
August 9, 2023
Inside the Newest Conflict in Somalia
The roads on the eastern side of Las Anod are littered with so many torched cars that you begin to wonder whether arson isn’t a deliberate tactic in this war. Next to the...
August 7, 2023
The Risk of a West African War
August 1, 2023
Niger’s Coup Is a West African Disaster in the Making
Niger, America’s last relatively strong and democratic security partner in the Sahel region of West Africa, succumbed to a coup on July 26. In true praetorian fashion, soldiers...
January 27, 2023
The Oil Thieves of Nigeria
How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation