The final nail: Niger’s break with the US
Europe’s old Sahel strategy is dead – and Russia is circling over its carcass
Experts & Staff
Will Brown
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Africa geopolitics and international relations, the Sahel, Horn of Africa, humanitarianism, conflict reporting, emerging third powers, and Russia in Africa.
Languages
English, French
Biography
Will Brown is a senior policy fellow with the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His main research interests are African geopolitics, the ongoing conflict in the Sahel region, and international competition in the Horn.
Brown has been a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC since 2020. Previously, he worked for a decade as a multi-award-winning journalist and reported from more than 30 countries, including from the front line in Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and Chad. He was a senior reporter at the independent investigative outlet Tortoise Media, the Africa Bureau chief for the Telegraph newspaper based in Nairobi, the west Africa correspondent for The Economist based in Dakar, and a freelance journalist in New Delhi.
He holds a BA in history from the University of Manchester and trained in reporting at the Press Association in London.
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Sudan crisis: humanitarian response in the lead-up to the Paris Summit
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In the media
After a year of rising middle powers using Sudan as their blood soaked playground, the country is barrelling down the road to the worst famine anyone alive has ever seen
Will Brown comments on the worsening situation in Sudan
Niger’s announcement leaves a gaping hole in U.S. operational capacity in Africa
Will Brown analyses the implications of Niger revoking its agreement with the Pentagon for a US military base