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…
Plans are underway in Morocco to build the Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center, which promises to be a beacon…
Sahelian terror groups are expanding their reach and influence, conducting large-scale attacks across huge swaths of territory in the junta-led…
When Civicus, a South Africa-based alliance of civil society organizations from around the world, recently added Burkina Faso to its…
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…
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…