To Defeat ISIS In Libya, The West Needs Egypt — And Russia
The "other" front line in the war against ISIS is in Libya. An ongoing civil war has created fertile ground for the Islamist terror group...
Islamic State menace rising in Africa, experts warn
Two African extremist movements affiliated with the Islamic State group could become a major threat on the continent if they come...
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...
Tide of Lake Chad Insurgency Shifting From Nigeria
Bombings that killed up to 49 people in the cities of Yola and Kano this week cast doubt over Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
France's evolving African diplomacy
Over the past two weeks, fundamentalist attacks have spread terror from Beirut to Tunis and from Bamako to Paris. The Islamic State of...
Mali Bamako hotel attack shows the country's continuing need for French military help
Francois Hollande’s visit turned into a wonderful party. The people of Timbuktu put on their most colourful clothes, danced to and sang...
Mali's president doubts al-Mourabitoun role in attack
Mali's president has questioned claims that al-Mourabitoun, an al-Qaeda-linked group, was responsible for last week's assault on a luxury...
World’s Deadliest? Boko Haram and the Challenge of Quantifying Violence
As French President Francois Hollande decried the so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS)November 13th Paris attacks as an act of war, a...