Islamic State in West Africa’s Insurgency Kills 42 Over Weekend
Last Friday at about the same time the new Nigerian president, Muhamadou Buhari, was being sworn in, 10 Nigerians were...
Nicholas Hanlon
Defector: North Korea Targets Electrical Grids
Professor Kim Heung-Kwang taught computer science in North Korea for 20 years before he escaped in 2004. He recently sat...
Burundi, Amisom, and al Shabaab
There is an interesting piece at BBC by Rachael Akidi that looks at the participation by East African leaders in...
Early Reports of a Coup in Burundi
In a season of testing for democracy in Africa, recent unrest in Burundi has been escalating as President Pierre Nkurunziza's...
al Shabaab Will Target Primary Schools in Kenya Next
Last Friday, Dalson Radio in Mogadishu, Somalia reported that Kenyan security officials have discovered al Shabaab leaflets urging jihadist fighters...
U.S. Secretary of State in East Africa Signals Tacit Acknowledgment of Global Jihadist Threat
U.S. Secretary of State visited both Nairobi Kenya (Monday) and the airport in Mogadishu Somalia (yesterday) just weeks after al...
Early Signals that Chibok Girls Have Been Rescued
Cautious reports are coming out of the possible rescue of those dubbed the Chibok girls of whom 276 were kidnapped...
Boko Haram Re-Brands as Islamic State in West Africa
There is a lot of relatively good news on the progress of the Nigerian army in it's efforts to defeat...
What al Shabaab Hopes for Your Town
After the recent large scale attack in Garissa Kenya that was preceded by an assassination in Uganda, two massacres in...
Genocide Against Black African Christians Continues in Sudan
Much of the media's coverage of Sudan is focused on next week's election even though Omar Bashir has ruled for...
Islamic State Benefits From Cyber Attack on TV5 Monde
There are legitimate unknown factors about the origin of the cyber attack that infiltrated the Paris offices of TV5 Monde. ...
Former Gitmo Prisoner Arrested for Assassination of Ugandan Prosecutor
Former Guantanamo detainee Jamal Kiyemba was arrested yesterday along with several other suspects in an operation by Kenyan police. Eight...
al Shabaab lays siege to Christian University in Kenya
A mass of al Shabaab gunmen raided Garissa University College campus around 5:30 AM local time Thursday morning. The two...
al Shabaab Assassinates Ugandan Prosecutor of 2010 World Cup Bombing Case
Ugandan prosecutor Joan Kagezi was in her car with her children when men tailing her by motorcycle drove by and...
U.S. Crony Subverts Nigerian Democracy
In the months leading up to the 2015 Nigerian presidential election, incumbent Goodluck Jonathan received generally negative media coverage. This...
Will al Shabaab Join Islamic State?
The past weeks of debate regarding the relationship of Boko Haram and IS paints a picture of the how Western...