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Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
Violence by armed groups is dangerously disrupting the conservation and protection of the environment.
Experts provide insights into the various actors involved in Nigeria’s security challenge, their motivation and why efforts to rein them in haven’t quite succeeded.
Colombia, the location of Latin America’s longest-running insurgency, is seeing a new wave of violence.
Nigeria needs to take full responsibility for its own security governance and counter-terrorism campaign without waiting for foreign handouts.
Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.
The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in west Africa.
A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a jihadist state in west Africa.
The dissolution of the Chad-France defence pact raises questions about Chad’s next potential partners. It could also reshape power dynamics in the Sahel.
While Wagner may offer short-term stability for some African governments, its long-term impact undermines sustainable development and security.
Nigeria describes Lakurawa as a new terror group. It is not. It’s been operating along the Nigeria-Niger border since 1999, an indication of the region’s growing ungoverned spaces.
What will happen to Cameroon after President Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982?
The ambush of Russia’s Wagner soldiers and Malian forces by rebels with Ukrainian support raises concerns of the beginning of a proxy war between Russia and Ukraine in west Africa.
To win its counterinsurgency war, Mali’s military must focus on the fragility of the state, strained military capabilities, and fallout from Russian-Ukraine crisis.
As the US winds down its military operations in Niger, it is clear that its presence did not lead to eradication of terrorism in the country.
The latest suicide bomb attack in Nigeria could be an act of desperation, a tactical shift or a form of communication by the insurgents.
Boko Haram leaders valued western education knowledge for the tactical advantages it offered.
Large banditry and terror attacks were relatively rare in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria’s south-west region until recently.
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Research Fellow, Obafemi Awolowo University, Regional Coordinator, Institute for Security Studies
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Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
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Lecturer, University of Northampton
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Nonresident Research Fellow, Rice University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Olabisi Onabanjo University
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Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
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Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
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Public Health Physician/ Implementation Scientist, Dalhousie University
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