Episode 256 – Why is Africa rife with jihadi groups? Last year the Global Terrorism Index for the first time put an African nation, Burkina Faso, at the top of its list of terrorist attacks. A phenomenon most associate with the Middle East (and West Asia: think Pakistan and Afghanistan) is now increasingly dominated by […]
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Episode 253 – Another bad year for terrorism in Africa? In its 2024 report The Global Terrorism Index, the Institute for Economics and Peace noted that for the first time an African country, Burkina Faso, took top spot in terrorist attacks. This came as a surprise to many who had become accustomed to nations in […]
Episode 243 – From the European frying pan into the Russian fire in Africa That European nations did awful things in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries is indisputable (that they did some good things too seems to be overlooked). As a consequence, many nations want nothing to do with these countries now. Oddly, […]
Africa is rapidly becoming jihad central for many terrorist groups and the threat may not be limited to the region
Why would African nations embrace a Russian mercenary group in counter-terrorism ops rather than use Western forces?
Why are coastal West African nations facing a growing jihadi threat and how serious could this become?
Africa seems to have become the epicentre for jihadi terrorism of late: what led to that unenviable status?
Several West African states are facing a growing threat from Islamist terrorist groups gaining local support in their northern regions.
On January 16, 2014 more than 50 Muslims were killed in two attacks by Christian terrorists in the Central African Republic.
Africa will most likely continue to be a hot bed of terrorism for many years to come with little hope of a resolution to this threat