Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States
Editor’s note: Below is Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and...
Xenophobia: The past comes back to haunt us
Jeremy Cronin, deputy secretary of the SACP, says South Africa is dealing with the "ghosts of a past that has never truly been...
US adds Shabaab leaders to designated terrorist list
The State Department today added two senior officials in Shabaab, al Qaeda’s official branch in East Africa, to the US government’s list...
Dadaab refugee camp closure would risk 350,000 Somali lives, warns Amnesty
Amnesty International has joined the UN and others in urging Kenya to halt its plans to close the world’s largest refugee complex,...
Looming Challenges in Niger Delta Could Threaten Nigeria’s Election Afterglow
While international attention has focused on the election of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued instability in the north of the...
Al-Shabaab’s Kenyan Ambitions
Al-Shabaab’s 2 April attack in Kenya that killed 147 people at a university in Garissa, 120km from the border with Somalia, has again...
One year on, where are the Chibok schoolgirls?
On April 14, 2014, nearly 300 girls were abducted at midnight from their school, Federal Government Girls College, Chibok, in Borno...
CONFLICT TRENDS (NO. 36) REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE, APRIL 2015
Welcome to the April issue of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project’s (ACLED) Conflict Trends report. Each month, ACLED...
China does not support rogue African states, it creates them - report
Africa can expect to witness more incidences of state-sponsored domestic violence, as Chinese aid increases, a new study shows. With...
Terrorism Rises in Africa
Terrorist atrocities by Sunni Muslim extremists are on the verge of becoming the world’s white noise. Two weeks ago, there was an attack...
