20.500.12592/t4c4g6
Contemporary Civil-Military Relations in the Sahel
12 February 2019
Summary
The first part of the paper traces the origins and the evolution of strong political influence of armed forces (praetorianism) across the region. [...] The table demonstrates the full extent to which the various national armed forces shaped domestic politics across the region until the end of the Cold War in 1990. [...] In Chad, the outbreak of the civil war in the late 1970s led to the disintegration of the armed forces. [...] Given the firm grip of Taya over the armed forces and the omnipresence of the armed forces inside the administration, the 1992, 1997 and 2003 elections were foregone conclusions. [...] Although the major cities of the north are by now under the control of the state, the jihadi insurgency has managed to spread to the central region and the Niger-Mali border (International Crisis Group, 2015).
