Terrain context
Inner Niger Delta and the central belt
A seasonally flooded inland delta where the flood calendar, not the road network, decides who can move and when.
Conflict coverage · Central Sahel
Context, not targeting. Terrain records are strategic and historical in scope. The schema has no fields for coordinates, routes, crossing points or defensive positions, and a chokepoint can only be named where Vigil already publishes it as a map marker.
Terrain contextsWhat kind of ground Sahel is fought over, as 4 records. Each explains why forces behave the way they do in a region — never how to move through it. A chokepoint can only be named where Vigil already publishes it as a map marker.
Terrain context
Northern desert and Saharan belt
Open ground where distance is the defining obstacle and roads, wells and junctions matter more than terrain features.
Terrain context
The Liptako-Gourma borderlands
The ground where three states meet and none has ever fully administered — and where the Sahel's insurgencies are most visibly one system.
Terrain context
Western approaches and the Atlantic corridor
The Sudanian belt carrying Mali's fuel, its railway and its goldfields on one narrow band of ground between Bamako and the sea.
Evidence and grading
- Scope
- Terrain records are strategic and historical, at the level a published analyst writes. The schema has no fields for coordinates, routes, crossing points or defensive positions, so that class of content cannot be authored here.
- Confidence
- How well established Vigil considers this assessment to be. It is not a measure of how severe the situation is.