Why are coastal West African nations facing a growing jihadi threat and how serious could this become?

Why are coastal West African nations facing a growing jihadi threat and how serious could this become?
How do academics and practitioners in countering terrorism get along and what are the challenges?
A decision to collect intelligence from human sources abroad on security matters needs to be carefully thought out and not done flippantly
Writing about terrorism cannot be easy given the inherent danger in going to conflict zones: so why does a Canadian journalist do it?
Busy people need help understanding the torrent of information sent to them, including intelligence. That is where a national security advisor comes in.
Of all the Western nations France seems to suffer the highest level of terrorist attacks. Why is this?
In the aftermath of the heinous attack by Hamas in Israel what next? A very good question with few answers
The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is bad enough: what does it mean that some of the attackers unfurled an ISIS flag on Israeli territory?
Running an intelligence agency is not an average job one would imagine: what was it like to do so in Canada in the post Cold War/9/11 era?
Left-wing terrorism is on the rise in many countries but no one seems to want to talk about it – why not?