Vincent Foucher is a research fellow at Les Afriques dans le Monde, a research unit of the French National Centre for Science Research based at the Institut d’études politiques in Bordeaux. He holds a PhD in political science from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He was a senior analyst at the West Africa office of the International Crisis Group in Dakar from 2011 to 2017. He has done research on the separatist insurgency in Casamance, southern Senegal, on the politics of transition in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau and on the Boko Haram insurgencies in the Lake Chad Basin.