Bottom Line Up Front: South Africa has been a widely recognized safe haven and logistical base for terrorists for more […]
Archive for ‘Foreign Fighters’
Latest Developments on Mozambique’s Ansar al-Sunna: A Deteriorating Security Situation
Editors Note: This month’s much anticipated article is by Jasmine Opperman (@Jasminechic00 on Twitter), who’s currently an analyst at the Armed […]
Busting Myths on Global Jihadism in Nigeria
Editors Note: In the upcoming months, TAJ will be featuring contributions from analysts and scholars in the field of (counter-)terrorism […]
Jihadist Expansion into Burkina Faso
In my previous article I mentioned Burkina Faso to be one of the countries contributing to Sub-Saharan Africa’s account for […]
A Recent Overview of Terrorism in Africa
According to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), 23 070 incidents of terror occurred in Africa between 2000 and 2018. The […]
Violent Extremism in Mozambique: The Importance of Drawing Key Lessons from the Emergence of Terrorist Organisations in Africa
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on Addressing the Threat of Violent Extremism in Southern Africa late last […]
Al-Shabaab’s Foreign Fighters and Why they Matter
We are typically drawn to events involving mass casualty terror attacks, affiliatory developments such as mergers (or acquisitions), factional battles […]
