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Interview with Dr Gilles Yabi

Founder and president of WATHI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

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Abstract

Gilles Yabi is the founder and executive director of West Africa Think Tank (WATHI). He guides and supervises the activities of the think tank, whose permanent team is based in Dakar, Senegal. WATHI is an open platform for the production and dissemination of knowledge and proposals on all issues crucial to the present and future of West Africa and other regions of the continent. Mr Yabi is regularly invited to share his thoughts on political, economic, educational and security issues with various African and international organizations. He also has a long experience of interacting with the media, and has been publishing columns on African political and economic issues for the past fifteen years. He hosts the weekly column “Ça fait débat avec WATHI” on Radio France Internationale.

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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 103 , Issue 918: The Sahel , December 2021 , pp. 831 - 841
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the ICRC

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Footnotes

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This interview was conducted by Bruno Demeyere, Editor-in-Chief of the Review.

References

1 International Crisis Group, Frontière Niger-Mali: Mettre l'outil militaire au service d'une approche politique, Africa Report No. 261, Brussels, 12 June 2018, available at: www.crisisgroup.org/fr/africa/west-africa/mali/261-frontiere-niger-mali-mettre-loutil-militaire-au-service-dune-approche-politique (all internet references were accessed in May 2022).

2 Prevost, Nathalie, “Les accords se multiplient entre les djihadistes peulhs et les autres ethnies”, Mondafrique, 29 April 2021Google Scholar, available at: https://mondafrique.com/les-accords-entre-les-peuls-et-les-djihadistes-pourraient-embraser-le-mali/.