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Exporting Borders Frontex and the Expansion of Fortress Europe in West Africa

Border Wars

The EU is pushing its migration control far beyond Europe’s borders. This report exposes how Frontex operates in West Africa under the cover of cooperation, entrenching neo-colonial influence, undermining rights, and reshaping the Sahel into a securitised buffer zone.

Report by

Mariana Gkliati
Jane Kilpatrick

10 July 2025

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Articles

An overview of articles by TNI experts, staff, and associates.

Learning Lessons from the Taliban Opium Ban

War on Drugs

Article by

Martin Jelsma

Publication date: 1 March 2005
Chile's Pinochet: Indictment of Pinochet a Victory for International Law

Article by

Saul Landau

Publication date: 18 December 2004
Civil Society, Democracy and Power

Article by

Hilary Wainwright

Publication date: 1 October 2004
The Pinochet Cases and the Invasion of Iraq

Article by

Saul Landau

Publication date: 30 September 2004
Sexual Abuse, Lies, and Videotape Sink America’s Iraq Expedition

Article by

Walden Bello

Publication date: 11 May 2004
The World Social Forum

Article by

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Publication date: 1 March 2003
An Assassination, A Failure to Act, A Painful Parallel
Article by

John Dinges

Peter Kornbluh
Publication date: 22 September 2002
A State Terrorist, Still at Large

Article by

Murray Karpen

Publication date: 12 January 2002
25th Anniversary of Letelier-Moffitt Assassinations and the US Harbors the Terrorists Who Did it

Article by

Saul Landau

Publication date: 21 September 2001
Once Upon a Time

Article by

Ariel Dorfman

Publication date: 17 September 2001