After more than a decade, external security intervention has left the Sahel region more fragmented, militarised and violent.
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The strength of armed groups doesn’t come only from weapons but also from how deeply they are embedded in local realities.
Decades of neglect, corruption and state brutality have allowed armed group JNIM to gain the support of Mali’s marginalised communities.
Bamako faces an uncertain future.
Accepting former Boko Haram fighters back into Nigerian society is a tough task.
There is fierce competition for access to roads in conflict zones
Violence by armed groups is dangerously disrupting the conservation and protection of the environment.
Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.
Mali is in a period of political uncertainty.
The junta-led countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced a new joint military force to combat jihadist groups in the region.
A combination of population explosion, failure of governance and endemic poverty creates a perfect breeding ground for a jihadist state in west Africa.
Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa.
Rwandan forces have been able to keep civilian casualties low in Cabo Delgado despite carrying out a counterterrorism operation.
The spike in violence was marked by a 68% increase in fatalities involving civilians.
Chad fulfils all conditions to be affected by Islamist terrorism. But the threat so far comes from its neighbours, not from the inside.
The US gives money to help Indonesia and other countries fight terrorism. But research shows that this money might not be effective, unless it directly reaches former extremists.
Political extremism has a checklist. The more boxes are checked, the closer political extremism gets.
Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
Any attempt to restore an Islamic emirate is likely to cost the Tablian international recognition, legitimacy and aid. This will weaken its prospect of consolidating its hold internally.
The children of Canadians who have left to join the Islamic State are the subject of a fierce debate about Canada’s obligation to their repatriation.
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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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 in Geography, University of Florida
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Professor, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah
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Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecture in International Terrorism, University College Cork
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Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia
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Senior research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University