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President Donald Trump described a Dec. 25 airstrike on suspected insurgent camps as a ‘Christmas present’ from the US. Many in Nigeria are not viewing it as such.
Bamako is under immense pressure, but not under an effective siege.
Nigeria needs a decentralised and coordinated security system.
Despite the number of fatalities from terrorism in Nigeria, it is difficult to delineate the killings based on religious affiliations.
The elimination of offices within Homeland Security and the State Department may force US counterterrorism efforts to rely on a solely military approach, which has proven ineffective.
A scholar of extremism writes that the use of the term often obscures deeper societal issues such as rising political violence and is dangerously simplistic.
China’s military assistance to Mali could be damaging.
Dismantling one of the world’s deadliest terror group’s access to illicit economies is key to countering its activities.
The political unrest in Mozambique reflects discontent with the status quo, including limited opportunities for advancement.
Russia has been rounding up central Asian migrant workers and sending them home.
The SADC mission shows how difficult it is to run a large-scale military intervention, especially if the host government is not taking full ownership and supporting the operation.
At least 137 people were killed in the Moscow attack – the latest in a a series of ISIS-K operations outside its traditional stronghold.
After five years of operating mostly in western Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Islamist terror groups are again growing in strength in the West.
Boko Haram may be the unintended beneficiary of the crisis created by the recent coup in Niger.
In parts of Nigeria and Mozambique, the central governments and state institutions are either absent or unable to address the dire socio-economic conditions and related instability.
In being grey listed South Africa joins a list of countries with poor governance. Others are war zones or countries with jihadist terror groupings operating on their land.
Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
For the time being, terrorism is a reduced threat in Australia. But the threat is not going away entirely.
Recent attacks on Togo show that West African states must act quickly and decisively to stop the spread of violent extremism.
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center and Professor of Politics, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of International Relations at UCL | Associate Fellow on the Middle East at Chatham House, UCL
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professor of African history, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate professor, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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PhD, University of Leicester
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Senior lecturer in International Relations and Programme Director for the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, University of Birmingham