Boko Haram’s Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad (JAS) and other terror groups are increasingly launching attacks around Nigeria’s forested Borgu-Kainji axis. Analysts…
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As 2025 wound down, four African regions continued to endure terrorist threats: the Sahel, particularly Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger;…
As the Economic Community of West African States prepares to establish a regional force to combat terrorism and security threats,…
Terrorism attacks and deaths fell sharply worldwide in 2025, including in parts of Africa, but the numbers might tell a…
Coastal West African countries are strengthening counterterrorism partnerships after the 2025 rupture with Sahelian nations that crippled the G5 Sahel…
An attack on a military outpost in Kofouno, Benin, in early March was the latest demonstration that terrorists with Jama’at…
Maj. Gen. Fructueux Gbaguidi, an Army officer with more than 35 years of experience, has studied and trained at institutions…
In a grueling, eight-day exercise spread across three departments in Benin’s southern zone, members of the National Guard were pushed to…
Just before the sun began its evening retreat in the skies over Lagos, Nigeria, on January 27, 2002, a fire…
Lakurawa, which began as a self-defense force in northwestern Nigeria, has evolved into a Boko Haram-aligned terrorist organization, preying on…