US President Barack Obama would do well to refocus America’s interventions in Africa to support peaceful activists fighting for democracy.
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The gun attack at a hotel marks another bloody chapter in West Africa’s fight against Islamist militancy.
The final article of our series on the historical roots of Islamic State examines the role recent Western intervention in the Middle East played in the group’s inexorable rise.
The African terror group has been weakened, but it’s now wreaking a new kind of havoc.
Mercenaries and private armies have always been controversial – but are they really any worse than regular armies?
Well Santa has come and gone, at least for the largest proportion of the world’s population. And, as we reach the end of the year, it is inevitably time to review recent trends and the prospects for 2016…
Selective sympathy raises troubling questions. If you neglect suffering in other places, it is much more difficult to mobilise political actors to take it seriously.
Apart from numerous worldwide threats including from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the US is taking more notice of Africa due to the expansion of extremist organisations on the continent.
A week of carnage across northern Nigeria proves Boko Haram is alive and well. Can the Nigerian army get its act together?
Islamic State is symptomatic of a disturbed and troubled social order. The vast crisis of dislocated people and communities is being expressed in anger, intolerance and perverted notions of honour.
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.
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.
Hundreds of women rescued from the Nigerian Islamist group are pregnant after being held in sexual slavery.
Dire government warnings and counter-terrorism raids in our suburbs paint a picture of the worst threat Western nations have ever faced. A little historical perspective is in order.
Fixing unemployment, poverty and illiteracy will be at the top of the new president’s to-do list. Then there’s Boko Haram.
What appears to be a peaceful transference of presidential power in Nigeria – unprecedented in the country’s history – has global significance in the fight against cultist jihadism.
The 2015 elections in Nigeria were chaotic, but the country’s voters displayed immense courage in showing up at all. More than 20 people were killed, not in electoral violence between competing parties…
As Nigeria goes to the polls, the fight against Boko Haram may be reaching a turning point – but in whose favour?
Nigeria heads to the polls on March 28 to choose between incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.
Islamist group raises real fears over security around national vote, but there are others threatening the peace.
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Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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