COMMANDER SETH ANTHONY DZAKPASU, GHANA ARMED FORCES | photos by reuters As the threat of violent extremism was growing in…
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It has been two years since Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani overthrew Niger’s democratically elected president and pledged to restore security to…
The Islamic State group’s attack on Puntland Defense Forces early in 2025 represented a key change in tactics and technology…
Across the vast expanses of rural Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, residents feel little influence from their central governments. That…
Islamic State-Mozambique is one of many terrorist groups in Africa using child abduction as a weapon of war. The United…
Across Africa, so-called “ungoverned spaces” serve as breeding grounds for terrorist organizations as well as transit points for weapons, drugs…
Before the terrorists came, Dagodji was a thriving village alongside the Niger River in central Mali. There was bustling agriculture,…
African nations’ counterterrorism strategies range from battlefield combat to cat-and-mouse hunts in cyberspace. But there is one aspect of counterterrorism…
Al-Qaida-linked terrorists attacked seven Malian military posts July 1 in a series of coordinated, simultaneous early-morning assaults on urban centers…
In September 2024, Col. Assimi Goïta, Mali’s junta leader, traveled to Beijing to visit Norinco, a weapons manufacturing company. Mali…