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Anti-Terror Courts Target Lawyers Amid Opposition Trials

Anti-Terror Courts Target Lawyers Amid Opposition Trials

The phrase Anti-terror courts target lawyers has gained renewed traction following the February 23, 2026 release of Ahmed Souab from Tebourba prison. Souab, a 69-year-old former judge turned defense attorney,…
Anti-Terror Courts Target Lawyers Amid Opposition Trials

Anti-Terror Courts Target Lawyers Amid Opposition Trials

The phrase Anti-terror courts target lawyers has gained renewed traction following the February 23, 2026 release of Ahmed Souab from Tebourba prison. Souab, a 69-year-old former judge turned defense attorney,…
Ethiopia Leads Continental Push on Organized Crime Networks
Ethiopia Leads Continental Push on Organized Crime Networks
2,000 Troops by 2026: Reviving Regional Security in West Africa
2,000 Troops by 2026: Reviving Regional Security in West Africa
Kenya’s Curriculum: A Proactive Shield Against Africa’s Terrorism Financing Networks
Kenya’s Curriculum: A Proactive Shield Against Africa’s Terrorism Financing Networks
US Ammunition Airlift to Nigeria: Bolstering Counterterrorism or Escalating Sahel Tensions?
US Ammunition Airlift to Nigeria: Bolstering Counterterrorism or Escalating Sahel Tensions?
Christian Persecution Funding: Burke’s Visit and Nigeria’s Terror Finance Reckoning
Christian Persecution Funding: Burke’s Visit and Nigeria’s Terror Finance Reckoning
Ethiopia Leads Continental Push on Organized Crime Networks

Ethiopia Leads Continental Push on Organized Crime Networks

Ethiopia Leads Continental Push Organized Crime Networks Analysis centers on a February 2026 high-level seminar in Addis Ababa that brought…
2,000 Troops by 2026: Reviving Regional Security in West Africa

2,000 Troops by 2026: Reviving Regional Security in West Africa

The 2,000 Troops by 2026 Reviving Regional Security West Africa Analysis begins with the February 2026 summit of the Economic…
Kenya's Curriculum: A Proactive Shield Against Africa's Terrorism Financing Networks

Kenya's Curriculum: A Proactive Shield Against Africa's Terrorism Financing Networks

The Curriculum of Kenya represents a systematic change in the manner in which the African countries treat the prosecutions of…
US Ammunition Airlift to Nigeria: Bolstering Counterterrorism or Escalating Sahel Tensions?

US Ammunition Airlift to Nigeria: Bolstering Counterterrorism or Escalating Sahel Tensions?

The US Ammunition Airlift reached a pivotal stage in the middle of February 2026, and three American military planes arrived…
Christian Persecution Funding: Burke's Visit and Nigeria's Terror Finance Reckoning

Christian Persecution Funding: Burke's Visit and Nigeria's Terror Finance Reckoning

Christian Persecution Funding has moved from advocacy discourse into the center of Nigeria’s national security calculus. What was once framed…

Expert Opinions

12 Coups from Ct Training Reshape Africa Security Landscape

Sahel’s 10,500 Annual Toll Reshapes West Africa Security

Washington deepens counter-terrorism ties with Abuja

Tunisia strengthens counterterrorism capabilities with $1.4m US equipment aid

Haitian forces strike Jimmy “Barbecue” cherizier strongholds in Port-au-Prince

Why did U.S. strikes in northwest Nigeria mark a strategic turning point?

What the US airstrikes in Sokoto reveal about Africa’s new terror front

What the US airstrikes in Sokoto reveal about Africa’s new terror front

On December 25, 2025, US Africa Command said in a statement that, at the direction of the President of the…
Nigerian army arrests suspected suicide bombers linked to Maiduguri mosque blast

Nigerian army arrests suspected suicide bombers linked to Maiduguri mosque blast

The Nigerian troops involved in Operation Hadin Kai have arrested two suspected suicide bombers and disrupted the logistics chain that…
Nigeria’s counter-terrorism strategy enters a critical reset

Nigeria’s counter-terrorism strategy enters a critical reset

The two main events that happened on December 18, 2025, demonstrate that Nigeria will make substantial adjustments to its anti-terrorism…
Regional power vacuums fueling the expansion of extremist groups in North and West Africa

Regional power vacuums fueling the expansion of extremist groups in North and West Africa

The series of military coup that transformed the rule in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger is still shaking North and…
Rabat's Victim-Centric Pivot: Redefining Africa's Anti-Terrorism Paradigm

Rabat's Victim-Centric Pivot: Redefining Africa's Anti-Terrorism Paradigm

The repositioning of Rabat by Morocco as the center of victim-focused counter-terrorism will be an important recalibration of security discourse…
US-Nigeria Counter-Terror Pivot: From Tension to Tactical Alliance?

US-Nigeria Counter-Terror Pivot: From Tension to Tactical Alliance?

The U.S.-Nigeria counter-terror pivot in 2025 indicates a redesigned security relationship that will have been influenced over months of diplomacy,…
Morocco's Victim-Centered Pivot Reshapes African Counter-Terrorism

Morocco's Victim-Centered Pivot Reshapes African Counter-Terrorism

The Victim-Centered Pivot of Morocco received institutionalization when Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita gave precedence to the needs of the victims…
Strengthening International Cooperation to Starve Terrorist Networks: Insights from IMCTC’s Nairobi Training Program

Strengthening International Cooperation to Starve Terrorist Networks: Insights from IMCTC’s Nairobi Training Program

East Africa continues to confront persistent terrorism financing threats, where illicit money flows sustain groups operating across Somalia, Kenya, and…
Al Shabab’s territorial aspirations: Impact on civilian life in Somalia and neighboring regions

Al Shabab’s territorial aspirations: Impact on civilian life in Somalia and neighboring regions

The 2025 territorial ambitions intensified drastically with a fresh military and political direction to establish control again in central and…
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