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Rida Lyammouri

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Rida Lyammouri is a senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS). He is also a senior West Africa and Lake Chad Basin researcher and advisor, with expertise in regional conflicts, violent extremism, climate change, migration, and trafficking. He specialises in analysing climate-conflict interactions in the Lake Chad Basin, West Africa, and the Sahel, studying resource scarcity, adaptive strategies, and socio-economic impacts. His multidisciplinary approach combines climate science and conflict analysis, offering insights into the region's climate-security nexus.

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Policy Brief
Floods in the Lake Chad Basin and the Sahel: The Climate Change-Conflict Nexus
Rida Lyammouri

Boglarka Bozsogi
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Lake Chad Basin and the Sahel regions have faced multidimensional conflict since 2011. Violence, attributed mostly to violent extremist organizations (VEOs) affiliated to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, has put both regions on the global map of the deadliest armed conflicts and worst…
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Climate change and biodiversity, Africa, Sahel
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Policy Brief
Morocco’s Atlantic Initiative: A Catalyst for Sahel-Saharan Integration
Rida Lyammouri

Amine Ghoulidi
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Morocco, leveraging its strategic position and proven expertise in infrastructure development, has proposed an ambitious framework to reconnect the Sahel to global supply chains via its Atlantic coastline. The Sahel’s vast distances and dispersed population have historically deterred significant…
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International Relations, Maghreb, Sahel, Atlantic
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Flooding and Climate Shocks: Their Effect on Local Economies in the Lake Chad Basin
Rida Lyammouri

Boglarka Bozsogi
Friday, December 6, 2024
Communities around the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) rely on three major economic activities: farming, fishing, and livestock herding. The floods that began in August 2024 damaged and destroyed hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland, killed thousands of livestock, and rendered fishing unsafe for…
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Economy, Climate change and biodiversity, Africa, Sahel
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Floods in the Lake Chad Basin: The Climate-Displacement Nexus
Rida Lyammouri

Boglarka Bozsogi
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The Lake Chad Basin is home to over 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs),[1] a number expected to rise due to the recent flooding affecting Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon since August. While the primary cause of displacement remains the ongoing violent conflict in the region, the…
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International Relations, Africa, Sahel
Annual Report, Book / Report
Rapport annuel sur la géopolitique de l’Afrique 2023
Sous la direction de

Abdelhak Bassou

Abdessalam Saad Jaldi

Abu Bakarr Bah

Alioune Ndiaye

Amal El Ouassif

Akram Zaoui

Babacar Ndiaye

Benjamin Traoré

Bodo Andrianarisoa

Dorcy Rugamba

Gilles Yabi

Hamza Mjahed

Hamza Mjahed

Hind Zaamoun

Jamal Machrouh

Mathieu Bere

Mahamadou Simpara

Mehdi Benomar

Mohammed Loulichki

Mohamed Ahmed Gain

Nezha Alaoui M’hammdi

Nihal El Mquirmi

Norman Sempijja

Oumnia Boutaleb

Oussama Tayebi

Patrice Kouraogo

Rachid El Houdaigui

Rania Barrak

Redouan Najah

Rida Lyammouri

Sara Hasnaa Mokaddem

Silindile Mlilo

Hala Boumaiz

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne

Tarek Cherkaoui

Youssef Tobi

Youssef Errami

Yousra Hamdaoui
Friday, September 8, 2023
Cette 6ème édition du rapport géopolitique de l’Afrique s’inscrit dans la même ligne éditoriale que ses précédentes. Elle se veut une plateforme où des auteurs et analystes africains racontent l’Afrique géopolitique de 2022 en débordant parfois sur les événements saillants du début de…
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International Relations, Geopolitics, Security & Defense, Conflict resolution, Armed conflicts, Terrorism, Africa
Book / Report
Aftermath of War in Europe: The West VS. the Global South?
Abdelaaziz Ait Ali

Christian Bachheimer

Rim Berahab

Otaviano Canuto

Serhat S. Çubukçuoğlu

Marcus Vinicius de Freitas

Amine Ghoulidi

Len Ishmael

Rida Lyammouri

Badr Mandri

Rahul Sharma

Isabelle Tsakok

Kevin Verbelen
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
This publication provides an insight into the lens through which countries of the Global South view the current period of successive crises, brought about by an ongoing global pandemic and a war in Europe. It highlights how the combined weight of history, culture, and geography has shaped the…
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International Relations, International Cooperation, Geopolitics, Security & Defense, Armed conflicts, Europe
Annual Report, Book / Report
Rapport annuel sur la géopolitique de l’Afrique 2022
Sous la direction de

Abdelhak Bassou

Ahmed Rhazaoui

Alioune Ndiaye

Amal El Ouassif

Benjamin Traoré

Chidiogo Akunyili

Eric Ntumba

Hamza Mjahed

Jamal Machrouh

Khalid Chegraoui

Larabi Jaïdi

Lassina Diarra

Mehdi Benomar

Mohammed Loulichki

Nchimunya Hamukoma

Nihal El Mquirmi

Noamane Cherkaoui

Nouzha Chekrouni

Oumnia Boutaleb

Oussama Tayebi

Patrice Kouraogo

Rachid El Houdaigui

Redouan Najah

Rida Lyammouri

Salma Daoudi

Sara Hasnaa Mokaddem

Souha Majidi

Youssef Tobi

Abdessalam Saad Jaldi
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Dans cette nouvelle édition du Rapport annuel sur la géopolitique de l’Afrique, et à l’instar des éditions précédentes, le maître-mot est la richesse dans la diversité. Une diversité dans les visions et les opinions que des auteurs africains, habitués de cette tribune où qui la découvrent,…
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International Relations, Geopolitics, Security & Defense, Terrorism, Africa, Sahel, Horn of Africa
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Policy Paper
Militarized Border Security Will Not Stop the Spread of Extremism
Laura Sanders

Rida Lyammouri

Jordan Moss
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Communities in northern Côte d’Ivoire report an ongoing pattern of questioning, ethnically- motivated arrests, and abuse, in contrast to the good relationships with local forces and police they had until two years ago*. In one case, the national army arrested a number of men, beat them, and held…
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Security & Defense, Armed conflicts, Terrorism, Africa, Western Africa, Sahel
Opinion
To Protect Coastal West Africa, Protect the Peuhl
Laura Sanders

Rida Lyammouri
Thursday, May 12, 2022
An HRW report details the massacre of at least 300 civilians in the central Malian town of Moura — the deadliest single atrocity in the country’s decade-long armed conflict. Most of the victims were from the Peuhl ethnic group. The widespread political and social exclusion of the Peuhl puts them at…
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Security & Defense, Conflict resolution, Armed conflicts, Terrorism, Africa, Western Africa, Sahel
Research Paper
Customary Characters in Uncustomary Circumstances: The Case of Niger’s Tillabéri Region
Rida Lyammouri
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Of all the regions included in this report series, Tillabéri is the region that scores best when it comes to both general community resilience, as well as traditional and religious authorities’ functioning. The region is not as exposed to shocks as Est (Burkina Faso) and Ménaka (Mali), and its…
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Security & Defense, Conflict resolution, Armed conflicts, Terrorism, Africa, Sahel

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