In the Lake Chad basin, counterterrorism war often presents itself as a technical operation: one target, one strike, one military balance sheet. But when civilians are killed or reported killed, technology no longer protects power from the central question: who decided to strike, on what evidence, and who answers for the dead?
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Facing Iran, Donald Trump wants to appear as the man of absolute force. But the longer the war stretches, the more diplomacy reveals a simple contradiction: Washington can neither obtain surrender nor openly accept the price of compromise.
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In Niger, access to ICT is not only a matter of connection. It is a matter of state, territory, data and infrastructural dependence.
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In Gafsa, every disruption of phosphate says more than a local conflict: it reveals a strategic rent that enriches public accounts on paper while leaving the mining territory with unemployment, pollution and social anger.
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Soft wheat is never merely an agricultural product. In Morocco, it concentrates the constraints of drought, import dependence, budgetary subsidies and the political fear of higher bread prices.
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When a school becomes the site of a health incident, it is not only a local anomaly: it is the sign of a public service exposing children to the very failures it should contain.
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African economic forums speak of investment, sovereignty and transformation. But a country is not transformed by announcement: it is transformed by production, employment, energy, taxation and control of value.
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In Cameroon, the repeated expectation of a cabinet reshuffle is not merely institutional gossip. It reveals a political mechanism in which power is maintained through suspension, uncertainty and dependence on presidential arbitration.
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In Chad, the Succès Masra file is not only about the fate of a former prime minister turned opponent. It exposes a deeper mechanism: when justice intervenes in a locked political field, every procedural act also weighs as an act of power.
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In Côte d’Ivoire, the Assalé Tiémoko case recalls that a procedure for false information is not measured only by its penal label: it also says how a state frames public speech in a period of political tension.
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