After years on the back foot, ISIS is on the march in Nigeria

Northern Nigeria is facing an ascendant ISIS insurgency, drawing Washington into the fray. Since the jihadist insurgency in ...
Homeland Security Today

Analysis Suggests Mali’s Jihadist Insurgency May Be Looking to Syria as a Governance Model

A new analysis published in World Politics Review argues that Mali’s dominant jihadist group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), may be drawing lessons from the evolution of Syria’s Hayat ...
The Conversation

Cameroon’s rebels may not achieve their goal of creating the Ambazonian state – but they’re still a threat to stability

Cameroon’s separatist insurgency is an armed conflict in the country’s North West (NW) and South West (SW) regions that began in 2017. It pits government forces against several non-state armed groups, ...

'Increasing insurgency': Study finds surge in violence followed Trump's USAID cuts in Africa

DAKAR: US President Donald Trump's decision last year to abruptly dissolve the US Agency for International Development — once a leading global aid donor — has been followed by a significant increase ...