
Due South: Paweł Wójcik on the Sahel Security Crisis.
Fronts Staff · September 19, 2026 · 1h 38m
Deep strategic analysis and opinion focused on incentives, second-order effects, and long-term implications.

Fronts Staff · September 19, 2026 · 1h 38m

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16:44Simon Whistler · September 18, 2026

Neil Hauer · September 7, 2026 · 9 min read
19:12Simon Whistler · September 4, 2026

Evan Moloney · September 3, 2026 · 1h 6m

Saturday's failed coup in Niamey was staged by soldiers from Niger's jihadist-plagued frontlines — and only Russia's Africa Corps saved the junta that sent them there.
Paweł Wójcik · September 3, 2026 · 10 min read
16:40Simon Whistler · September 3, 2026

Mose argues the 2024 Gen Z protests were no failure: Olkalau voters pocketed a billion shillings in bribes and rejected the ruling party anyway — a preview of what 2.6 million new voters may do in 2027.
Wilfred Waimiri · September 2, 2026 · 1h 25m

Micky Braeger · September 1, 2026 · 12 min read

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces are arguably the most well-funded and armed insurgency in decades. With billions of dollars in funding and near-daily weapon deliveries from the UAE, winning the civil war should in theory have been easy. But the opposite is true. The RSF is losing.
Thomas van Linge · August 31, 2026 · 11 min read
18:12Simon Whistler · August 28, 2026
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