Whatever caused the crash of a Russian airliner over the northern Sinai, it’s finally brought the world’s attention back to a critical security crisis.
The failure of African states to adequately address their racial, ethnic, cultural, religious and economic differences provided the fertile ground on which rebel groups now prosper.
American al-Qaida militant Adam Gadahn in a video grab from 2008.
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The death of al-Qaida propagandist and “traitor” Adam Gadahn, known as Azzam the American, got scant attention – just what the US government wanted. A scholar examines the definition of treason.
Many Nigerians have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.
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The failures of the African Union raise serious questions about when to deploy its security apparatus in general and the Africa Standby Force in particular.
Kenyan security forces react to the attack on Garissa University College.
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL