Over the past three years, insurgent groups across Africa increasingly have deployed weaponized drones against security forces, leaving militaries racing…
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The terrorist attack in April that killed Mali’s defense minister in his home added fuel to the notion that Jama’at…
In a national address on June 12, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu praised security forces for the gains that they are…
As drones increase in importance to military operations, African tech entrepreneurs want to show that they can build an industry…
AI is being used to analyze data related to a wide range of threats such as unregulated fishing, banditry and…
Boko Haram’s first female suicide bomber killed herself and a Nigerian Soldier in 2014 at a barracks in Gombe State.…
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…