

Boko Haram-fuelled famine threatens 120,000 Nigerians as Lake Chad crisis deepens, UN warns
At least 120,000 people are facing starvation in northeastern Nigeria due to a "catastrophic" man-made famine caused by the insurgency of...


Briefing: The new Jihadist strategy in the Sahel
Security has been intense over the last few weeks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, with police and soldiers on the streets, vehicle...


As ISIS Expands In North Africa, Morocco Faces Rising Threat Of Islamic State Group Terrorism
Morocco’s rippled sand dunes, sheltered coves and white sand beaches have long lured tourists looking for a taste of the Maghreb without...


Tunisia reopens Libya border
Tunisia has reopened its border with Libya, 15 days after it shut the frontier following a suicide bombing in Tunis claimed by the...


Sudanese USAID employee assassin killed by al-Shabaab in Somalia
One of the four assassins who took out an employee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Khartoum, was...


A look at Mali's Islamic extremist groups
The competing claims by the Macina Liberation Front and Al-Mourabitoun to have carried out Friday's attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in...


Belmokhtar, 'The Uncatchable' desert jihadist
Wily one-eyed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, whose jihadists have claimed an assault on a luxury Mali hotel, shot to global notoriety with a...


Egypt arrests senior Muslim Brotherhood figure
Egyptian security forces have arrested Hassan Malik, a leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, security officials said, part of a...


ISIS beheads a South Sudanese citizen ’to avenge persecution of Muslims in the country’
The Islamic State section in Libya (ISIS) released a video on Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of a man who identified himself as...


70 Tunisia hotels closed since jihadist attacks
At least 70 hotels have closed in Tunisia since September after two deadly jihadist attacks on foreign tourists, and more are expected to...