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Geopolitical Watch in West Africa

Geopolitical Watch in West Africa

TRAINING Geopolitical Monitoring in West Africa From the issue to the deliverable decision-making · 12-14 hours · 4 weeks · online Start of the training - 1st cohort: Saturday, September 12, 2026 This...

Aug 31, 2026 Training

Monitoring Note - Attempted Coup d'Etat in Niger

Monitoring Note - Attempted Coup d'Etat in Niger

Title: Attempted Coup d'Etat in Niger on the night of August 28 to 29 Date of the note: 30/08/2026 Level of confidence: high What happened On the night of Friday, August 28 to Saturday, August 29, 202...

Aug 30, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Economic diplomacy must now integrate with geopolitical intelligence

Alioune Aboutalib LO

Economic diplomacy must now integrate with geopolitical intelligence

Critical minerals, strategic corridors, securing supply chains, friend-shoring, etc., are interconnected issues that heavily impose themselves on economic diplomacy today, but are now strongly depende...

Aug 24, 2026 ESPA Advisory

Mise à jour WACRI - Juillet 2026 - Note de Synthèse Analytique

Alioune Aboutalib LO

Mise à jour WACRI - Juillet 2026 - Note de Synthèse Analytique

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Jul 11, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

French companies in West Africa: the reputational risk is confirmed in the digital realm

French companies in telecommunications and audiovisual are facing a reputational risk in West Africa that has crossed a critical threshold. From Burkina Faso to Senegal, passing through Mali and Côte ...

Jul 3, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Guinea: the ban on the export of raw gold, strategic implications

Guinea: the ban on the export of raw gold, strategic implications

Guinea now bans the export of raw gold and requires local refining before any export. Key points A regional trend, not an isolated case. West Africa is redefining the rules of the game for foreign inv...

Jun 23, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Note analytique - Recomposition du paysage économique et nouvelles règles du jeu pour les investisseurs privés

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Jun 3, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Monitoring Note - Update of the WACRI Index as of May 1st

Monitoring Note - Update of the WACRI Index as of May 1st

The index (still in the testing phase) takes into account more this month the structural political orientations, as in the case of Senegal (the choice of non-restructuring with the IMF and the updatin...

May 2, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Sénégal, une nouvelle géopolitique des investissements : risques, partenaires et opportunités stratégiques

Alioune Aboutalib LO

Sénégal, une nouvelle géopolitique des investissements : risques, partenaires et opportunités stratégiques

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Apr 27, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

What is Business Diplomacy?

What is Business Diplomacy?

Globalization and the internationalization of firms have necessitated the management of "business" in the diplomacy of ambitious countries. Economic diplomacy, in general, has become a strategic tool ...

Feb 20, 2026 ESPA Advisory

Le Sénégal au 106e rang du Global Soft Power Index 2026, 12e en Afrique

Alioune Aboutalib LO

Le Sénégal au 106e rang du Global Soft Power Index 2026, 12e en Afrique

Ce classement est basé sur les perceptions internationales mesurées via une enquête auprès de plus de 150 000 répondants dans plus de 100 marchés, évaluant la familiarité, la réputation, l'influence e...

Feb 11, 2026 ESPA Advisory - Analyses et Publications

Sahel: security incidents increasingly target businesses and strategic infrastructure

Sahel: security incidents increasingly target businesses and strategic infrastructure

Since August 2025, several attacks have shown the rise of terrorist groups in the Sahel, targeting strategic infrastructure but especially businesses. Context From August and September: blockade, atta...

Feb 6, 2026 ESPA Advisory

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