Stories from a war zone in the Sahel: A nomad’s unalike travel
10/7/2023. Soon after midnight I received a WhatsApp voice message from ‘Mamadou Fette Sambo’ – the name under…
August 7, 2023
Climate disruption anger
On Saturday March 11, I walked from the Hague Central Station along the evacuated government buildings, to the…
March 16, 2023
The attack of N’Dola in Mali: A turning point in the Malian conflict?
Mobilisation of people in central Mali to ask for peace and security (retrieved from a WhatsApp group) It’s…
December 3, 2021
Peace pacts in Mali: Fragile pockets of peace or ‘peaceful’ colonization by Jihadi groups
Camp for displaced people in Sénou, Bamako. @ Sjoerd Sijsma, 2021 Since 2016 violent conflict in Central Mali…
March 29, 2021
‘It is going wrong in the Sahel’, whose violence?
Silenced I have been silent on this blog for almost a year. A silence shared with my colleague…
February 23, 2020