Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger: Women receive food aid in Somalia. Terrorism creates food disruptions, undermining production systems and supply routes. Tobin Jones/Wikimedia Commons Over the last decade, there has been growing international focus on the role of food in conflict, particularly in Africa. The continent has …
Niger’s coup weakens regional fight against Boko Haram: four reasons why: Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum was detained and deposed on 26 July by his military guard under the command of General Abdourahamane Tchiani. The unconstitutional change of government has been widely condemned internationally. Ecowas, the regional group, also issued sanctions and threatened military intervention. However, …
Mozambican terror group is strikingly similar to Nigeria’s deadly Boko Haram: Mozambican Armed Defence Forces being inspected in Cabo Delgado Province. Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images Terrorism is a global problem affecting many countries. Until 2017, however, southern Africa was largely spared from this phenomenon. The bloody conflict sparked by Ansar al-Sunna in northern Mozambique …
Chibok kidnappings: why it’s important to listen to the survivors of Boko Haram terrorism: A UK mural employs the trending hashtag #BringBackOurGirls Tim Green/Flickr, CC BY In 2009 a once quiet local Salafi group called Boko Haram became increasingly violent in north-east Nigeria and border communities of Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Its quest to forbid …
Nigeria’s Boko Haram reintegration process: weaknesses and how they can be fixed: The wreckage of a car hit by an attack led by Boko Haram members. AFP via Getty Images In Nigeria, the advent of Boko Haram terrorism and its wanton destruction of lives and properties has led to untold hardship, especially in the country’s …
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Nigeria’s poor response to Boko Haram has left border communities feeling abandoned: Nigerian security personnel inspect the site of a blast at Nyanya bus station in the outskirts of Abuja Stringer/AFP via Getty Images For over a decade, the North-eastern region of Nigeria has been ravaged by insecurity, as the militant group Boko Haram has …
Nigeria must rethink responses to women displaced by Boko Haram: The Boko Haram crisis has displaced many women who have now made camps like this Awaridi refugee settlement in Niger, their home. GettyImages People’s experiences of conflict and violence are shaped in part by sex and gender. Women and girls are especially vulnerable to the …
South Africa in the news: Mailafia: I got information on northern governor leading Boko Haram from traders: After his release from DSS custody, he said he is ready to lay down his life for the country like Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, did for his country. But in an interview with BBC …: …
Victims of Boko Haram feel like strangers when they return home to southern Nigeria: An injured woman and her children arrive at a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno State, after a Boko Haram suicide bomb attack Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images During the past ten years of Boko Haram’s campaign against the Nigerian state, over 27,000 …
To finally defeat Boko Haram, Nigeria’s leaders must change their ways: Since Mohammadu Buhari became president of Nigeria in May 2015, his government put Boko Haram on the defensive in its north-eastern heartlands. Over the last two years the group has steadily lost control of swathes of territory, culminating in December 2016 when it was …
Boko Haram: why jaw-jaw might be better than war-war for Nigeria: Residents view an army poster of wanted Boko Haram suspects in Bayelsa, Nigeria. EPA/Tife Owolabi It is just over a year since General Muhammadu Buhari swept to power amid promises to the Nigerian people that he would succeed where his predecessor Goodluck Jonathan had …