Sophia Birchinger, Sait Matty Jaw, Omar M Bah, Antonia Witt

“Siding with the people” or “Occupying force”? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia

Abstract

How do African citizens experience and evaluate African regional inter­ventions? This re­search report exa­mines the case of The Gam­bia to assess local percep­tions of the African Union and ECOWAS, particu­larly of their inter­ventions in that country since 2016. It is the result of colla­bora­tive and empiri­cally comprehen­sive research carried out across the country in 2021/2022. We demon­strate that percep­tions of the interven­tions in The Gambia are complex and diverge starkly, at times even contra­dicting each other. We explain this com­plexity as resul­ting from spatial, tempo­ral, and sociopo­litical factors that affect how these Afri­can regio­nal inter­ventions are (diffe­rently) perceived.

Bibliographic record

Birchinger, Sophia / Jaw, Sait Matty / Bah, Omar M / Witt, Antonia (2023): “Siding with the people” or “Occupying force”? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia, PRIF Report 3/2023, Frankfurt/M, DOI: 10.48809/prifrep2303.

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