National Coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Office of the National Security Adviser, Major General Garba Laka, has said the wave of military coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina ...
Data lays bare the extent and geographical spread of attacks in Africa’s most populous country Data from Acled and the Global Terrorism Index shows that after a few years of improvement, insecurity in ...
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Digital Shadows: How terror groups in Nigeria and the Sahel leverage social media, AI, and drones
In April, the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) - an offshoot of Boko Haram and an affiliate of the Islamic State in parts of Nigeria and the Sahel - deployed four armed drones carrying ...
President Donald Trump is taking action against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, following through on previous threats and signing off on airstrikes targeting the group on Thursday. While ...
From the cattle corridors of the Sahel to the abattoirs of Lagos and Accra, a convergence of jihadist predation, export bans, ...
The US 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy represents a significant development in American security policy, reflecting both lessons learned from past interventions and the current and rapidly shifting ...
On December 25, 2025, the United States struck two apparent Islamic State camps in northwest Nigeria with Tomahawk missiles. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that it struck “ISIS terrorists in ...
Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso, Chad, ...
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