Members of the Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) of the Sahel and West Africa Club met in Paris on 16 June.

T. Jean de Dieu Somda, Special Representative of the SWAC President, met with Abdallah Boureima, the new UEMOA Commission President to congratulate him for his appointment.

Listen: SWAC Secretariat Director Laurent Bossard was a guest on France Culture’s foreign affairs radio programme to discuss the current food crises in Africa, including the Lake Chad region. 

The Secretariat's latest publication "Cross-border Co-operation and Policy Networks in West Africa" will be presented at the 2017 European Conference on African Studies in Basel on 30 June. 

The SWAC Secretariat was in Brussels at the European Commission (DEVCO) for an Infopoint presentation on "Food security: at the heart of demographic, migration and security challenges".

"Girls robbed of their childhood in the Sahel", read the most recent opinion piece by SWAC Secretariat Director Laurent Bossard published by Le Monde Afrique (French)