Security forces in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern Puntland region have made significant progress in ridding the area of the Islamic State…
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Militant Islamist violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is continuing to expand to the west and south, threatening coastal…
Africa is now the continent most affected by terrorism. Each day, an average of eight terror attacks results in 44…
When security forces in Puntland, Somalia, raided a vehicle convoy traveling south from Garowe, they confiscated a collection of drones…
Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta in mid-March announced it was recruiting 14,000 soldiers to fight rebels affiliated with al-Qaida and…
ADF STAFF Three vast, connected national parks in West Africa — the W, Arly and Pendjari — are known as…
Faced with a rising tide of external threats in the north, Benin has spent much of the past eight years…
The Islamic State group’s Somalia branch has become a crucial hub for financing terror across Africa, the Middle East and…
The Islamic State group’s two affiliates in West Africa rely on both modern cryptocurrency and hawala, a traditional person-to-person exchange,…
Puntland security forces made a surprising discovery when they took control of the remote town of Shebaab. Hidden beneath a…