Terrorism in Africa, although directly connected to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, is vastly different in nature than in the Middle East and elsewhere. Unlike terrorists in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and elsewhere,70%of Sahel jihadists are hired from ...
Terrorism is politically motivated violence directed against non-combatants. It is no doubt as ancient as organized warfare itself, emerging as soon as one society, pitted against another in the quest for land, resources, and dominance, was moved by a desire for vengeance, or found advantages i...
UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for strengthened collaboration to counter terrorism and extremism across Africa -- from Sudan and the Horn of Africa, to the Sahel, the Great Lakes region and beyond. In a video message to the Aswan F...
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Acting-President of the G5 Sahel, also President of Burkina Faso, on Thursday asked Russia for enhanced strategic partnership for the fight against terrorism in the Sahel region. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré said this in his speech at the Russia-...
acting coordinatingly under a same ideological umbrella. This chapter therefore provides an in-depth analysis of the root causes of terrorism and of the motives driving terrorist groups in the MENA region as well as its local and international consequences. The Middle East and North Africa regions...
US officials toldCNNthat the letter could be a negotiating tactic to get a more favorable deal, but the expulsion of US forces would follow a pattern of Western countries losing their foothold in the region. (antiwar.com) By all accounts the War on Terror in Africa is an epic failure…....
(CTV) For years, Sally Lane and John Letts have feared their son Jack is dead — and no one has told them. Their fears lingered in my mind as I travelled for days across a perilous region of northeast Syria, hounding Kurdish[…] ...
The Sept 17 attack was the most brazen since 2016 in a capital city in the Sahel, a vast arid region stretching across sub-Saharan Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
African theatres of insecurity are also rapidly shifting. This includes the coastward expansion of Islamist militant groups in the Sahel, potential destabilisation in East and Central Africa due to the Sudan conflict, diplomatic flare-ups and violence in Great Lakes Region, an increase in military ...
According to a 2024 study by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the global epicenter for terrorist attacks has moved from the Middle East to the Sahel region of Africa, which accounted for half of all terrorism-related deaths in 2023. Burkina Faso was the country most affected by terrorist...