Abstract
Subject Border security and migration in West Africa/the Sahel. Significance West African states' borders are the focus of multiple international and local security interventions. These efforts are most visible around migration and mobility. Other cross-border threats, such as drug trafficking, fall under the expanding category of 'border management'. In addition to a patchwork of international interventions reinforcing state agencies, non-state security providers are increasingly playing an important role in the region. Impacts States such as Niger will intensify strategies maximising aid around border security -- especially where transit migration is a key issue. Despite coordination difficulties, external assistance for border security will be ever more strongly focused on reinforcing state capacity. New Western security partners, supplanting former colonial powers, will grow further in influence. Regional governments will persist in relying on some sub-state forms of security provision, especially against trafficking.
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