In 2024, a United Nations monitoring team reported that the relationship between Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist…
Boko Haram terrorists have turned to cryptocurrencies, mobile money platforms and other digital tools to…
In a propaganda video entitled “Empowerment Generation,” terrorists with Islamic State West Africa Province show…
The Chinese term fei chien, which translates to “flying money,” refers to an underground financial…
Malian journalist Seydou Oumar Traoré on May 26 was arrested for criticizing Guinea’s transitional president, Gen.…
At more than 42,000 square kilometers, Niassa Special Reserve is the largest protected area in…
Practitioners of galamsey, Ghana’s illegal small-scale mining epidemic, once used picks and shovels to extract…
Ejiao is considered a miracle elixir for those who use it. However, it has become…
For years, nations have searched for ways to secure porous borders against traffickers moving arms,…
Terrorism is a crime of opportunity. Global terror groups search out the world’s most vulnerable…
Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria is deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and chair of…
The Economic Community of West African States conducted Operation Safe Domain III, aimed at keeping…
Just three years after the Nigerian Air Force took delivery of a dozen A-29 Super…
Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation once known as a “narco-state,” intercepted 2.63 metric tons of…
The remote town of Birao, Central African Republic, sits close to the borders of Chad…
The Cameroon Army is equipping its special forces with Turkish-made MPT-76 assault rifles. Developed in…
Tunisia is on track to buy an undisclosed number of 20-meter Archangel patrol boats from…
