The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
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After years of losses to the joint military forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the Islamic…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western Niger reveal the rapidly deteriorating…
Terrorists have resumed attacks in northern districts of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, relying on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to limit…
In one week in May, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) went from being the most active wing of…
Decades after Mozambique’s Naparama fighters became famous during the country’s civil war, a new generation of fighters carrying the same…
Two raids on terrorist cells in Tunisia earlier this year demonstrate security forces’ ability to detect and neutralize plots against…
Mali’s ruling junta and its Russian backers recently launched airstrikes on Kidal, the northern city controlled since late April by…
Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi and Dosso regions have become host to the latest turf war between Sahelian terror groups Jama’at Nusrat…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist group are separated by the narrow Gulf of Aden. Their emerging collaboration to…