AQIM and the Growth of International Investment in North Africa
...presence of foreign firms in the Sahara and Sahel and the spread of energy-related infrastructure throughout the region, the Sahara and Sahel states’ populations are booming, more than...
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“Breaking the Walls” Goes Global: The Evolving Threat of Jihadi Prison Assaults and Riots
...on Prisons: ‘Breaking the Walls’ in the Sahel In the Sahel, both al-Qa`ida and Islamic State-loyal groups have routinely launched attacks on prisons in Mali, Burkina Faso, and...
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Twenty Years After 9/11: The Threat in Africa—The New Epicenter of Global Jihadi Terror
...the Sahel, in 2002, the United States launched the Pan-Sahel Initiative, intended to train and equip six company-sized partner nation rapid-reaction counterterrorism forces—three in Mali and one each...
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Outlasting the Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State Threat in Africa
...Sahelian jihadi conglomerate that served as a uniting umbrella group for five other factions.76 m Operationally, ISGS went from undertaking small hit-and-run attacks to much larger-scale,77 coordinated attacks...
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The Renewed Jihadi Terror Threat to Mauritania
...Nouakchott’s participation in the G5 Sahel—the coalition of Mali, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania—that is intended to restore stability in the Sahel and Sahara.42 The G5 Sahel...
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Ansaroul Islam and the Growing Terrorist Insurgency in Burkina Faso
...McGregor, “The Fulani Crisis: Communal Violence and Radicalization in the Sahel,” CTC Sentinel 10:2 (2017). [64] “Burkina Faso: Situation des écoles fermées dans la région du Sahel,” Humanitarian...
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After Prigozhin: The Future of the Wagner Model in Africa
...to recalibrate and expand their network, especially in Africa. Nowhere was this clearer than with Prigozhin’s praise of Niger’s coup leaders and his attempts to court the Sahel’s...
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Twenty Years After 9/11: What Is the Future of the Global Jihadi Movement?
...(AQIM) Sahara branch then linked up to a create a loose-knit al-Qa`ida super grouping in the Sahel known as Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM).c While the operational...
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