Health workers walk from house to house during vaccination campaign against polio in Kano, northwest Nigeria in 2017.
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Interventions seen to originate in the West frequently spark suspicion in northern Nigeria.
Military commanders inspect arms and ammunitions recovered from Boko Haram jihadists.
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The re-integration of defectors from terror groups into society is a conundrum governments in conflict situations have to deal with across the world.
Military and government officials supervise the airlift of girls rescued from Boko Haram at Maiduguri Airport.
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It’s been a decade since Boko Haram morphed into a violent, radicalised, Jihadist sect after the death of its founder. Since then it has caused untold harm in Nigeria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (waving) with some of the heads of state who attended the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia.
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At the Sochi summit, African states embraced Russia’s newly established relations.
Several African states are struggling to stem violent extremism.
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It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
Rohingya refugees in paddy field behind the border of Bangladesh in 2017.
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It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
Nigerian soldiers clearing Boko Haram camps in Borno State. The government has contracted private security companies to help.
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Private military and security companies are increasingly being contracted in Africa. But there are big gaps in understanding their impact.
The New IRA apologized for killing investigative journalist Lyra McKee during a riot in Derry.
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Organizations try to hide mistakes and evade responsibility, studies show. But two scholars analyzing militant and terrorist groups say they are willing to acknowledge their mistakes – sometimes.
Refugees from the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria are rebuilding their lives one stitch at a time.
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Displaced by the terrorist insurgency in Northeast Nigeria, refugees aren’t wallowing in self-pity. They’re mobilising whatever resources they can to rebuild livelihoods.
Women and girls rescued from Boko Haram militants in January 2018.
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Boko Haram has the highest number of women fighters in the history of terror
Nigerians living in Spain rally against Boko Haram insurgents who abducted over 200 girls from a school in Chibok, northeast of the country.
Kidnapping in Nigeria has blossomed into a burgeoning criminal enterprise.
Isis claims attacks in Beni province of northern Kivu, eastern Congo, close to the border to Uganda.
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Links between groups within the Kivu province and the Islamic state are not new.
US National Security Advisor John Bolton sees China as a threat to Washington in Africa.
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The US needs to review whether a security agenda based on US priorities will solve problems in sub-Saharan Africa.
A U.S.-backed Syrian soldier reacts as an airstrike hits territory held by Islamic State militants outside Baghouz, Syria, in February 2019. The Islamic State group has been reduced from its self-proclaimed caliphate that once spread across much of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014 to a speck of land on the countries’ shared border.
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Only by prosecuting extremists will the world be able to marginalize those who carry out violent acts and those who give credence to their ideas.
Cattle rustling is big business in Northern Nigeria.
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Northern Nigeria’s cattle rustling problem is aggravated by the regions ungoverned forests.
The average woman in Niger has over seven children – nearly triple the average across developing countries.
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Research shows that unrest, even terrorism, can erupt in poor countries with a surplus of young people and not enough jobs. Can Niger, a once-peaceful sub-Saharan African nation, handle its baby boom?
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017.
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Four young women who escaped Boko Haram during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping are now studying in the US. Their professor recounts a recent breakthrough in their quest to go to college.
President Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during a campaign rally in Akure, Ondo State.
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In the end, Buhari possibly won simply because the Peoples Democratic Party wasn’t offering a viable alternative.
The aftermath of a 2018 attack by the Taliban in Ghazni city, Afghanistan. Will terrorist attacks like this one be as common in 2019?
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Terrorist attacks and fatalities peaked in 2014, and have been on the decline since then.
Voters in the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria.
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The electorate monitored political parties very closely, an indication that democracy in Nigeria is taking root.