Boko Haram’s first female suicide bomber killed herself and a Nigerian Soldier in 2014 at a barracks in Gombe State.…
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Across the Sahel landscape, an old security feature is returning: fortified barriers. Inhabitants of rural towns are building rings of…
Terrorist groups increasingly are targeting roads, communities and commercial hubs within a 10-kilometer radius of mines in the Sahel, according…
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot spot for illegal, unreported and…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point of pressure by terrorists trying…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western Niger reveal the rapidly deteriorating…
In Nigeria’s illicit cybercrime training schools known as hustle kingdoms, there are no locks on the doors. Yet the young…
In one week in May, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) went from being the most active wing of…
The Nigerian Senate on June 24 passed a bill that will decentralize state police forces if approved by at least…