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An agent during his guard duty out of the police border post of Makalondi, at the border between Niger and Burkina Faso. Ph. by Francesco Bellina

Europe’s Shady Funds to Border Forces in the Sahel

18th September 2019

Photo by Francesco Bellina The wars on terror and migration have seen international funders sponsoring numerous border control missions across the Sahel region of Africa. Many of these rely on funds supposed to be reserved for development aid and lack vital transparency safeguards. In the first of a series, freelance journalist Giacomo Zandonini sets the scene from Niger. Surrounded by a straw-yellow stretch of sand, the immense base of the border control mobile company of Maradi, in southern…

Signing of a letter of intent for the development of a European SIDM drone

Content type: News & Analysis

Privacy International Joins Call to Stop EU Militarisation

13th September 2019

Photo: The European Union On 2 September 2019, Privacy International, together with 60 other organisations, signed an open letter to the European Parliament to express our deep concern about upcoming EU policy proposals which undermine the EU’s founding values of human rights, peace and disarmament. Since 2017, the EU has diverted funds towards security research and security capacity-building in countries around the world. The proposal for the EU's next budget (2021-2027) will significantly…