Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim Deputy Project Director, Sahel Please submit all media inquiries to [email protected] or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim is the Deputy Project Director, Sahel, based in Dakar. Areas of Expertise Sahel Region Islam and Politics Defence and Security Political Contestations International Development Professional Background Ibrahim gained a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida. His dissertation focused on Islam and Political Contestation in the Sahel Region. It is a comparative study of the phenomena of protests, riots, and jihadist insurgencies in Mauritania, Niger, and Mali. He is a co-founder and research associate with the Sahel Research Group. Ibrahim is an alumnus of the Fulbright Program and an analyst for Freedom in the World, as a Niger and Mauritania expert. He worked for four years with Islamic NGOs in Niger, including two years as the Executive Director of the Niger-office of Albasar International Foundation. He has a background in Sociology, Islamic Jurisprudence, and Management, with degrees from the Islamic University of Say and Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey. Languages French (fluent) English (fluent) Arabic (fluent) Hausa (native) Zarma/Songhay (basic) Publications “Regions at Risk: Preventing Mass Atrocities in Mali,” co-authored with Mollie Zapata, Early Warning Project, Report No. 3, produced by The United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Wave of Jihadist insurgency in West Africa: Global Ideology, Local Context, Individual Motivations,” West African Papers, No. 07, OECD Publishing, Paris (July 2017) In The News 26 juin 2024 The jihadists have deeply ingrained themselves into the local landscape [in northern Mali]. [That] has made it much harder to uproot them. New York Times Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim Deputy Project Director, Sahel 1 mai 2024 Western powers have enjoyed quite a bit of leeway in how they influenced and meddled in local affairs [in Niger]. Al Jazeera Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim Deputy Project Director, Sahel 9 oct 2022 Everything has been tried but still the jihadis are growing and occupying larger territories [in the Sahel]. Financial Times Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim Deputy Project Director, Sahel Latest Updates Podcast / Africa 02 juin 2023 Could Jihadists Seize Parts of Coastal West Africa? Podcast / Africa 16 mars 2022 France’s Troop Withdrawal from Mali Commentary / Jihad in Modern Conflict 27 octobre 2021 How Islamist Militants Elsewhere View the Taliban’s Victory in Afghanistan Q&A / Africa 19 octobre 2021 La mort du chef de l’Etat islamique au Grand Sahara : une occasion de dialogue ? Also available in English Podcast / Africa 30 septembre 2021 Could Talking to Mali's Jihadists Bring Peace? Q&A / Africa 19 novembre 2020 Burkina Faso et Niger : des élections à l’épreuve des insurrections ? Load more