Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro, a village on the Niger…
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The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point of pressure by terrorists trying…
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…
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…
Terrorists have resumed attacks in northern districts of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, relying on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to limit…
African countries share many challenges that no single country can solve alone, from terrorism and drug trafficking to illegal fishing…
In one week in May, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) went from being the most active wing of…