Rémi Carayol

Journalist.

Books French Soldiers in the Sahel: A Barely Repressed Colonial Unconscious Rémi Carayol · October 2020 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 (…)
Climate Change Devastates the Sahel Rémi Carayol · September 2020 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 (…)
Mali: TV Can Kill Rémi Carayol · February 2020 The family of Sadou Yehia, a Malian villager murdered by Jihadists on 8 February, accuse France 24, a news channel with a large audience in the region, of being responsible for his death. In a sequence shot by a crew accompanying French soldiers and showing how stock breeders are racketed, the (…)
Who are These “Jihadists” Who Are Defeating the French Army in the Sahel? Rémi Carayol · September 2019 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 (…)