Resources.

SSA shares timely insights through three channels: original research and in-depth reports, expert commentary featured in the media, and our blog highlighting emerging trends from the field. Explore our latest analysis below.

In the Media.

Our Director has spoken with the press about the coup in Niger, including with Reuters a few times about the destabilizing effects this coup will have on the region, the Associated Press about the potential for an ECOWAS intervention; S&P global about the impact Niger’s oil production, and with the BBC and CNN.

“‘It looks very much like these countries are giving up on Western multilateral counter-terrorism assistance in place of something they will have more control over," said Aneliese Bernard, a former U.S. State Department official in Niger.’”

- “Park Rangers enter fray in West Africa’s battle with militants” Reuters, April 2022

Our Articles in the Press.

“Jihadism is spreading to the Gulf of Guinea Littoral states, and a new approach to countering it is needed”

– Aneliese Bernard, Irregular Warfare Initiative at the Modern War Institute at West Point, September 2021.

”Ten things the United States should do to combat terrorism in the Sahel”

– Aneliese Bernard and Michael Shurkin, War on the Rocks, August 2021

“Great-Power Competition is Coming to Africa: The United States Needs to Think Regionally to Win”

- Mark Hicks, Kyle Atwell, and Dan Collini, Foreign Affairs, March 2021