The reality of the New Security Threats Facing Algeria in the African Sahel

Abstract

The Sahel region is one of the most fragile in the world, combining asymmetric security threats (terrorism, organized crime organizations in all its forms) and analogue security threats (problems related to the nature of state formation in the region, such as the problem of the failed state and the ethnic problem, as well as the Libyan crisis) and the consequent effects on Algerian national security.

This article therefore tries to focus on monitoring and analysing the effects of new security threats in the Sahel region on Algerian national security, where we have concluded that the security threats suffered by Algeria emanating from the region are characterized by expansion and proliferation, which creates serious security implications, and that the region is a crisis region because it contains many inflamed security crises, which affect the survival and stability of the region's systems as a whole, and facilitate the intervention of external parties.