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CIC National Capital (Ottawa): Terrorism In Africa, Ethnonationalist Or Religious?

This event by CIC National Capital Branch’s Africa Study Group (ASG)’s will feature Phil Gurski, formerly of CSIS and previously the CSE, and now CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting.

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February 17, 1988 | Car bombing in SouthWest Africa

On this day in 1988 a powerful bomb ripped through a crowded South African bank in Oshakati, killing 27 and wounding 70.

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West Africa is bucking the downward trend in terrorist deaths

Recent reports that deaths from terrorism are significantly down do not seem to apply to Africa.

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Terrorism in Africa 20 years after the Nairobi/Dar es Salaam bombings

Shortly after I joined CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) in January 2001 I attended a presentation by a friend who was working at the Canadian embassy in Kenya in the late 1990s.  He related that he was at home on August 7, 1998 when a massive blast took him and a colleague off their feet […]

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

Why don’t most ‘radicals’ go on to commit terrorism?

Episode 257 – How to tell non-violent ‘radicals’ from the violent ones The field of ‘radicalisation’ studies has been growing quickly, especially since 9/11. Practitioners and academics have seen this process as a precursor to the actual execution of acts of terrorism. But most of those who radicalise never move on to action? Why not? […]

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Is ISIS back? Actually, it never left the building

Those who stated confidently that ISIS had been ‘defeated’ in 2019 were totally, totally wrong

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Canadian Intelligence Eh!

Is Al Shabaab really on the descent in Somalia?

Governments sometimes stretch the truth to get their populations onside. Is this what Somalia is doing when it says Al Shabaab is on the wane?

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The West’s security alliances need to step up – stat!

The West stands for something important and it is time for all it constituent parts to take a principled stand on our collective security

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What can the ordinary public do to help authorities prevent violence?

Most people exhibit signs before they carry out an act of violence (including acts of terrorism). So, whose responsibility is it to act on this info?

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Is the Sahel becoming the new ground zero for jihadis?

Africa is beset by so many problems and jihadi terrorism may be the foremost of them. What does this mean for them and for us?