Rinaldo Depagne is West Africa Project Director at International Crisis Group, where he coordinates and oversees the research of a group of analysts in seven countries. He is also the Africa Program's Deputy Director and was previously the organisation’s Senior Analyst for Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso.
 
Before joining Crisis Group in 2008, Rinaldo worked as a journalist, specialising for the past 25 years in Africa and, in particular, West Africa. He has worked for various French newspapers and international radio stations and TV channels, including the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Canal +. He spent fifteen years of his life in West Africa, living in Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal and travelling in most of the Ecowas countries.

• The relations between France and Africa
• The geopolitics and politics of West Africa
• Armed groups and violence in Côte d’Ivoire
• Burkina Faso civilizations
• History, politics and current affairs of the Greater Sahel region