"The report, released this month by Counter Extremism Project, entitled, ‘An Unholy Alliance: Links between Extremism and Illicit Trade in East Africa’ says that regional stability is increasingly threatened by the continued existence of illicit...

"Kacper Rekawek, a Slovakia-based researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project, said Slotkin’s list is the type of list someone searching for far-right extremist groups on Google might draw up. 'The effort of Rep. Slotkin is commendable...

CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler and CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann write: "Since 2014, a new leaderless, transnational, apocalyptic-minded, violence-oriented right-wing extremist and terrorist movement (GRXT) has emerged, which is...

"'Visually, [these] groups use neo-Nazi imagery, including swastikas, black sun (sonnenrad) symbols, and skull masks which neo-Nazi accelerationist groups have adopted,' Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher and content review specialist at the Counter...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "East Africa is being picked apart by extremist groups, organised crime syndicates and urban gangs, all of whom are routinely assisted by some corrupt members of the region’s political, civil and business...

CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky quoted: "'Terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, Isis and Hamas have long called for – and claimed responsibility for – vehicular terrorist attacks,' Lipowsky explained. 'In Europe and the Middle East, we’ve seen...

"East Africa region a key security partner in the global war on terrorism and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new report dubbed Unholy Alliance...

"Kacper Rekawek, a researcher at the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project and the author of a 2020 report on right-wing foreign fighters in Ukraine, told me that European intelligence agencies began taking notice years ago of extremists going to the...

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts spoke on CNBC Africa about the new report "An Unholy Alliance: Links Between Extremism and Illicit Trade in East Africa" and the region as a key security partner.

"'[Atomwaffen Division] has specifically advocated for violence since they were founded in 2015,' said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the Counter Extremism project who monitors the group and its adjacent movement. '[S] everal of their...