Foredraget setter lys på sikkerhetsutfordringene i Sahel og Sahara områdene med særlig vekt på de potensielle truslene fra ikke statlige aktører som regionen står overfor samt grenseoverskridende kriminalitet. Situasjonen i tinduf-leirene vil også belyses.

Program:

17:00	Adekola Oyenugas – Welcome & Introduction
17:10	Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Gain – Non-State Actors in the Sahara Region and the Question of Insecurity
17:40	Maria Sandra Mariani – Kidnaping & Hostage testimony.  Real story of 14 months as hostage in the Sahara Desert.
17:45	Broadcasting of the documentary “Sahel and Sahara Connections” [1] directed by Hassan El Bouharrouti
18:20	Debate panel

 

[1] The documentary deals with the situation in Sahelo-Sahelian space. This Sahelo-Sahelian space has become, over time, a zone of no law which has seen the development of a veritable crime, the kidnapping industry, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings and trafficking in all genres. This situation is extremely worrying for the Maghreb, Africa but also Europe.