Summary

P.3 Editorial

The urgent need to end the occupation of Gaza by… Hamas! By Atmane Tazaghart

P.6 Confidential

TERRORISM Towards a jihadist caliphate in the Sahel?

WAR IN UKRAINE France and the Vatican prepare a peace plan

NIGER-France Redeployment of French military units to Chad?

DEATH OF PRIGOJINE Russian military intelligence involved?

NORTH KOREA How Pyongyang finances its nuclear programme

FRANCE – CHINA Will Macron go to Beijing in November?

UNITED STATES World Summit for the Consolidation of Democracy

FRANCE – UKRAINE Kiev wants its own African Summit

NATO- RUSSIA Russian submarines intrude on the Atlantic coast

P.7 Focus

BURKINA FASO

– Putchists fear a putsch!

P.8 Conjunctures

Special File Has the West lost the battle of courage?

Facing up to “democrats” The (un)reasonable accommodations of the West By Emmanuel Razavi

Azerbaijan assaults Yerevan The spectre of a new Armenian genocide By Ian Hamel

Turkey Bahar Kimyongür “It is illusory to hope to oust Erdogan’s ‘democrats’ via democratic elections” Interview by Malika Madi

Iran Amir Hamidi “Don’t underestimate the scale of the revolt” Interview by Joseph Martin

Persian Gulf Ghislain de Castelbajac “Iran and Saudi Arabia are doomed not to get along” Interview by Emmanuel Razavi

Geopolitics Raphaël Chauvancy “Democracies must face up to the new faces of war” Interview by Joseph Martin

P. 24 Investigations

Interview François Kraus “The French consider the religious nature of the Abaya to be undeniable” Interview by Gérard Legraud

Platform Abaya When separatism is part of faith By Hamid Zanaz

Tribute Jacques Julliard “The French Left no longer needs to be killed, it’s doing it itself!” Interview by Atmane Tazaghart

P.32 Expertise

Belgium Hide this sex education that I can’t see! By Nadia Geerts

Ecology Coping with “climate collapse” By Fabienne Durand

P.36 Culture

Books Cyril Moulin Fournier “Hostage of Boko Haram” Interview by Emmanuel Razavi

P.38 Post-scriptum

Abaya bann in French schools Fascists are not who you think they are! By the editorial board of Global Watch Analysis