Over the past three years, insurgent groups across Africa increasingly have deployed weaponized drones against security forces, leaving militaries racing…
Browsing: Burkina Faso
The terrorist attack in April that killed Mali’s defense minister in his home added fuel to the notion that Jama’at…
When Civicus, a South Africa-based alliance of civil society organizations from around the world, recently added Burkina Faso to its…
Terrorist groups increasingly are targeting roads, communities and commercial hubs within a 10-kilometer radius of mines in the Sahel, according…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western Niger reveal the rapidly deteriorating…
Burkinabe Imam Mohamed Ishaq Kindo spoke publicly in May against proposed legislation meant to restrict religious freedom. The military junta…
Several African nations have signed military cooperation agreements with Russia, pinning their hopes on Moscow as they confront jihadist insurgencies.…
A United Nations official warned that corruption and organized crime drive violence and terrorism in Nigeria as he introduced a…
As 2025 wound down, four African regions continued to endure terrorist threats: the Sahel, particularly Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger;…
An expanding swath of Islamic terrorism stretching from western Mali through the Lake Chad Basin to Somalia and Mozambique accounted…