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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.

The Davos Class

New Politics

Article by

Susan George

Publication date: 24 January 2012
Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
Food Sovereignty

Debt

Agroecology
Multi-media by

Eric Holt-Giménez

Publication date: 12 January 2012
Current drug laws Drugs and Democracy in Uruguay

Article
Publication date: 1 January 2012
The urgent next steps in ATS and Harm reduction Findings from a workshop in Burma/Myanmar
UN Drug Control

Harm Reduction
Article by

Tom Blickman

Publication date: 10 November 2011
TNI marks 35th anniversary of assassination of Orlando Letelier

Article
Publication date: 21 September 2011
Treaty guardians in distress The inquisitorial nature of the INCB response to Bolivia
UN Drug Control

Drug Law Reform

Coca Leaf
Article by

Martin Jelsma

Publication date: 12 July 2011
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: the hazardous journey of nuclear power

Energy Democracy

Article by

Praful Bidwai

Publication date: 22 April 2011
The path for Venezuela can not be neoliberalism or Stalinism

New Politics

Article by

Edgardo Lander

Publication date: 24 January 2011
Waste and capitalism

Article by

Susan George

Publication date: 17 January 2011
From apartheid South Africa to Palestine To exist is to resist

Palestine

Article by

Patrick Bond

Publication date: 28 October 2010