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Empowering local voices: How border communities can lead the fight against terrorism?

Empowering local voices: How border communities can lead the fight against terrorism?

In 2025, terrorism remains a complex and evolving threat. While national security forces lead defense, empowering border communities has become increasingly vital. These peripheral areas are geographically vulnerable yet socially…
Empowering local voices: How border communities can lead the fight against terrorism?

Empowering local voices: How border communities can lead the fight against terrorism?

In 2025, terrorism remains a complex and evolving threat. While national security forces lead defense, empowering border communities has become increasingly vital. These peripheral areas are geographically vulnerable yet socially…
Fragmented authorities, common enemy: Kenya and Somalia’s counterterrorism imperative
Fragmented authorities, common enemy: Kenya and Somalia’s counterterrorism imperative
From witness to target: How Sri Lanka’s counter-terror police intimidate Tamil journalists
From witness to target: How Sri Lanka’s counter-terror police intimidate Tamil journalists
How Nigerian security agencies and communities can collaborate to combat terrorism?
How Nigerian security agencies and communities can collaborate to combat terrorism?
Islamic military counter terrorism coalition training strengthens financial fight against terrorism
Islamic military counter terrorism coalition training strengthens financial fight against terrorism
Sowing stability: Evaluating Nigeria’s multi-sectoral strategy for countering terrorism
Sowing stability: Evaluating Nigeria’s multi-sectoral strategy for countering terrorism
Fragmented authorities, common enemy: Kenya and Somalia’s counterterrorism imperative

Fragmented authorities, common enemy: Kenya and Somalia’s counterterrorism imperative

In 2025, security challenges are re-surfacing in the Horn of Africa, and this challenge in relation to countering terrorism requires…
From witness to target: How Sri Lanka’s counter-terror police intimidate Tamil journalists

From witness to target: How Sri Lanka’s counter-terror police intimidate Tamil journalists

Tamil photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan was called to Sri Lanka‘s counter-terror police. The formal rationale was to do with his reporting…
How Nigerian security agencies and communities can collaborate to combat terrorism?

How Nigerian security agencies and communities can collaborate to combat terrorism?

Nigeria is ranked among the countries with the highest level of terrorism and violent extremism as they occur, being rated…
Islamic military counter terrorism coalition training strengthens financial fight against terrorism

Islamic military counter terrorism coalition training strengthens financial fight against terrorism

China and Russia are gaining pace in using the BRICS platform to strategize to withstand the western pressures and sanctions,…
Sowing stability: Evaluating Nigeria’s multi-sectoral strategy for countering terrorism

Sowing stability: Evaluating Nigeria’s multi-sectoral strategy for countering terrorism

By the time 2025 rolls by, the situation in Nigeria in terms of counterterrorism is changing considerably. There is a…

Expert Opinions

Somalia at a crossroads can international missions stem the terror tide

International collaboration in counter-terrorism are trainings like STOCTI the way forward

Libya at a crossroads: Counter-terrorism gains versus the ongoing migrant tragedy

Learning from global partnerships: What Nigeria can gain from international counterterrorism dialogues

Unrest in Tunis: Saied’s power, prison walls, and Tunisia’s dismantled democracy

Beyond bullets: rethinking Nigeria’s counter-terrorism strategies for 2025 and beyond

Resilience on the border: Ghana’s lessons for terrorism prevention in West Africa

Resilience on the border: Ghana’s lessons for terrorism prevention in West Africa

By 2025, Ghana remains a unique example of stability in an area that is becoming more and more tainted by…
Cross-border militancy: Why Zinder’s terror arrests signal regional security gaps in Niger

Cross-border militancy: Why Zinder’s terror arrests signal regional security gaps in Niger

The July 13, 2025, arrest of 21 suspected terrorists in southeastern Niger‘s Zinder region has renewed attention on the persistent…
America’s blind spot: Sahel instability threatens future of U.S.–Africa ties

America’s blind spot: Sahel instability threatens future of U.S.–Africa ties

Over the course of 2025, Cornell University has recalibrated business diplomacy that is the core institutionalized American foreign interaction with…
Sahel’s Exploding Terror Deaths: Can Regional Alliances Reverse the Trend?

Sahel’s Exploding Terror Deaths: Can Regional Alliances Reverse the Trend?

The Sahel is now considered the most dangerous terrorism area in the world as more than half of the terror…
Famine as a Weapon: ICC Allegations, Humanitarian Collapse, and Sudan’s Future

Famine as a Weapon: ICC Allegations, Humanitarian Collapse, and Sudan’s Future

The humanitarian meltdown in those parts of Sudan referred to as Darfur is quickly emerging as a legal and ethical…
Terrorism Redefined: Kenya’s State Violence and the Criminalization of Protest

Terrorism Redefined: Kenya’s State Violence and the Criminalization of Protest

In 2025, the mass protests led by young people became a historic event in Kenya and became an identity test…
Somalia’s Ongoing Struggle: Security Gains Amid Persistent Terror Threats

Somalia’s Ongoing Struggle: Security Gains Amid Persistent Terror Threats

At the end of 2025, Somalia has not yet left the complicated security situation field, where the al-Shabaab insurgency has…
Algeria’s EU Blacklisting: Security Imperative Or Political Pressure?

Algeria’s EU Blacklisting: Security Imperative Or Political Pressure?

In July 2025, the European Parliament placed Algeria under the EU list of high-risk countries in money laundering and terrorism…
HTS’s Rebranding: Can Lifting the Terrorist Label Bring Lasting Stability?

HTS’s Rebranding: Can Lifting the Terrorist Label Bring Lasting Stability?

On 3 July 2025, the United States removed Hay Tahrir AL Sham (HTS) from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.…
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