About Jihad in the Sahel
An analytical journey through the Sahel examines the expansion of armed groups since 2013 and the political, economic and human forces driving a major regional crisis.
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Extended overview
Traveling through Mali and neighboring parts of the Sahel, the documentary shows how armed movements grow where the state has largely disappeared. Old disputes between farmers and herders become recruitment opportunities, villages face forced taxation or destruction and local self-defense groups arm themselves with captured weapons. Former fighters describe coercion, ideology and the attraction of protection, while displaced Fulani families recount attacks that ended any thought of returning home. The captions reveal a crisis sustained by insecurity, poverty, communal mistrust and retaliation—conditions that make peace far harder than defeating a single armed group.
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Documentary details and original source
- Title
- Jihad in the Sahel
- Category
- Politics & War
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Best Documentary
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