Rémi Carayol

Journalist. He founded two newspapers in the Comoros archipelago (Kashkazi, Upanga) before joining the editorial team of Jeune Afrique, and later collaborated with various French-speaking media outlets (Orient XXI, Le Monde diplomatique, Mediapart). Over the past ten years, he has published several investigations and reports conducted across the African continent, particularly in the Sahel. He is the author of Mirage sahélien. La France en guerre en Afrique. Serval, Barkhane, et après ? (La Découverte, 2023).

Interview Ali Idrissa. «Today, uranium is synonymous with injustice» Rémi Carayol · October 2024 As relations between Paris and Niamey near a complete rupture, the future of the mines operated by Orano hangs in the balance. Will the nuclear giant leave Niger after more than fifty years of a contested presence ? Afrique XXI dedicates a special report to the explosive history of Nigerien (…)
Nigerien Uranium at the Service of France’s “Greatness” Rémi Carayol, Olivier Blamangin · October 2024 As relations between Paris and Niamey near a complete rupture, the future of the mines operated by Orano hangs in the balance. Will the nuclear giant leave Niger after more than fifty years of a contested presence ? Afrique XXI dedicates a special report to the explosive history of Nigerien (…)
Who are These “Jihadists” Who Are Defeating the French Army in the Sahel? Rémi Carayol · October 2024 The French army is bogged down in the Sahel. Despite its occasional victory communiqués, the fighting has spread to more countries in the region. These failures originate in Paris’s inability to understand what is at stake politically, or the motivations of the hundreds of young men who are (…)
French Soldiers in the Sahel: A Barely Repressed Colonial Unconscious Rémi Carayol · October 2024 They’ve “done their time” in Africa. Or better still they’ve made war in Africa. In the Sahelo-Saharan strip, known in French army jargon as the “BSS”. A war they describe in their own words, the language of soldiers brought up on the “exploits” of colonial conquest and indoctrinated in war (…)
Analysis Long-term Mine Grabbing Rémi Carayol, Olivier Blamangin · October 2024 As relations between Paris and Niamey near a complete rupture, the future of the mines operated by Orano hangs in the balance. Will the nuclear giant leave Niger after more than fifty years of a contested presence ? Afrique XXI dedicates a special report to the explosive history of Nigerien (…)
Climate Change Devastates the Sahel Rémi Carayol · October 2024 The Sahel is a region made increasingly arid by the encroaching desert and yet it must deal periodically with devastating floods. A double bind with many causes.
A man wading across an expanse of water carrying a mattress on his head. A woman piling onto a makeshift rowboat the pots and pans (…)