On January 6, 2014, a massacre took place in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State. Thirty-three people were slaughtered by men wielding guns and machetes.
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Recent reports that deaths from terrorism are significantly down do not seem to apply to Africa.
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Deaths from terrorism are down, but…
Terrorists killed less than half as many people in 2018 than they did in 2014: some trends are still worrisome however.
On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.
Declaring ‘victory’ over a terrorist group/terrorism may be a nice sound bite, but it is rarely accurate.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.
Recent attacks by a jihadi group in Mozambique demonstrate that this brand of terrorism is not going away: quite the opposite.
On this day in 2014, two girls detonated bombs at a market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing 78 people.
We really need to stop prematurely declaring the death of terrorist groups despite our need to celebrate victories.
Knife and bomb attacks carried out by lone terrorists in Australia and Cameroon show terrorism can occur at the hands of an individual.