- Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies
- NESA Center Alumni Group
- Alumni Publication: "The Politico-Military Cris...
Alumni Publication: "The Politico-Military Crisis in Niger Intensifies the Risk of Blowing up the Sub-Saharan and North Africa Regions" by Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui

On 6 August 2023, the NESA Center published alumnus Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui's Op-Ed on the latest crisis in Niger and its impact on the regional scale, titled "The Politico-Military Crisis in Niger Intensifies the Risk of Blowing up the Sub-Saharan and North Africa Regions."
"The new reshaping of the geopolitical and geo-economic world map means that the African continent will continue to be for the next decades, the theatre of issues related, essentially, to the control of strategic resources (rare Earth) and games of influence of extra-regional power actors with an increasing crises and conflicts of low and medium intensity," writes Dr. Chikhaoui.
About the Author
Dr. Arslan Chikhaoui is a Geo-political Analyst and the Chairman of Nord Sud Ventures (NSV) Consultancy & Studies Center and Advisory Board Member of the Defense and Security Forum.
The views presented in this article are those of the speaker or author and do not necessarily represent the views of DoD or its components.