By Fidel Amakye Owusu In mid-2022, West African heads of state made a pragmatic, if uncomfortable, concession. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The collapse of the G5 Sahel should serve as a wake-up call: African states cannot defeat violent extremism through fragmented, go-it-alone strategies....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the sudden removal of Nigeria’s four top military commanders – including the Chief of Defence Staff...
By Mary Alorh The rising concerns over terrorism in Ghana have led me to reflect on my journey through West Africa, a region where I witnessed...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Global Terrorism Index, a comprehensive study evaluating the impact of terrorism in 163 countries, covers about 99.7 percent of the world’s...
By Godfred Zina On July 6, 2024, the heads of the military juntas from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso gathered in Niamey for the first meeting...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The rise in extremist activities across various regions of Africa has deeply destabilized local populations, with women and children being the most...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the United States declared war on global terrorism in 2001, it was equipped with the world’s most powerful military in terms...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the pivotal factors that remains indelible when dissecting the origins of the First World War (WWI) is the relentless arms...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Anytime the boundaries of Africa are discussed, the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 emerges. The conference organized by Europe and hosted by the...
By Gregory Simpkins December 10th is commemorated as Human Rights Day in honor of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights by the United...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last November, Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, raised issues with a possible presence of The Wagner Group in Burkina Faso. He was concerned...
By Gregory Simpkins Since the days of African independence, the continent has been bedeviled by internal and external conflicts. There have been coups like the recent...
More militants expected to defect because of intense pressure from military
Kenya’s police chief issued Wednesday a list of 85 people and companies, including at least 13 key money transfer companies, of suspected links to Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked...
Staff members at a Colorado NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) office say they are waiting for more information before drawing any conclusions...
United States drones have begun to fly over Nigerian skies to generate satellite imagery and surveillance, as search for more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist...
Security trumps all as the Kenyatta government enters its second year in office and the economy weakens due to concerns about terrorism and the rising costs...
Boko Haram rebels have released a video purporting to show some of the Nigerian school girls they abducted last month. Their leader says he will free...
(Reuters) – An explosion in an area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed 6 people and wounded several others on Monday, the...
Authorities in Kenya have revealed that police have intercepted a car with improvised explosive devices, foiling a planned terrorist attack in the coastal city of Mombasa....
Security experts and government officials from more than a dozen Middle East and Horn of Africa countries are meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to...
(Reuters) – Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long term investors pull money out after the deadly...
A policeman carries a child away from gun fire as Kenyan security forces work to contain terrorist attack on Westgate Mall, in Nairobi. Sept, 22 2013....
A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least eight people and...
(Reuters) – An explosion hit a night club in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Sunday, killing one person, police said, a day after the U.S....
Two motorcycle-riding suicide bombers (suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect) drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on...
Bilal Philips. PHOTO/Arne Dedert/AFP/Getty Images A controversial Canadian Muslim cleric was deported from Kenya soon after he landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Thursday...
A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria’s capital, wounding five people amid...
The man who smuggled a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison, months...
The alleged mastermind of a radical Islamist sect’s Christmas Day church bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for about a month before...
A court in Ethiopia convicted two Swedish journalists Wednesday of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group. The...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Eritrea for allegedly providing support to armed groups (including the al-Shabaab group) seeking to destabilize...
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan judge has convicted two suspects over bombings last year that killed 76 people in the East African nation. Judge Owiny Dollo...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman...
