Across the Sahel landscape, an old security feature is returning: fortified barriers. Inhabitants of rural towns are building rings of…
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Terrorist groups increasingly are targeting roads, communities and commercial hubs within a 10-kilometer radius of mines in the Sahel, according…
As terror groups from the Sahel encroach on coastal West African states, Mauritania has remained relatively peaceful. The country has…
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
Recent terrorist attacks by Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and Islamic State Sahel Province in western Niger reveal the rapidly deteriorating…
Chad has reestablished its military relationship with France nearly 18 months after demanding that French forces leave the country in…
The al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) terror group on June 18 attacked Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger’s…
Islamist militants fighting for factions affiliated with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group (IS) are expanding across national borders in…
Several African nations have signed military cooperation agreements with Russia, pinning their hopes on Moscow as they confront jihadist insurgencies.…
Guineans received surprising news in late March, when the government announced that it had dismantled a suspected terrorist network linked…