The massacre at Kouré of eight people – six French and two Nigerians – is a sign : in the Sahel, jihadist violence spread, at the option of the setbacks inflicted by the forces of operation Barkhane. Other factors, such as the attacks carried out by the local armed against the people, make the situation worse by inflating the numbers of terrorist groups. A leading specialist on the Sahel, on which he worked for fifteen years, Yvan Guichaoua is a teacher-scholar at the Brussels School of International Studies, dependent of the university of Kent. He delivers to us so…

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