CEP report referenced, "Illicit trade is burning billion-dollar holes in the East African bloc, fueled by weak border controls and systemic political corruption by private interests, new report reveals."

"Illicit trade in East Africa is facilitating and funding extremists, terrorists and warlords, a new Counter Extremism Project (CEP) report has revealed."

"East Africa—a key security partner in the war on terror and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent—is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new report An Unholy Alliance: Links Between Extremism...

"East Africa—a key security partner in the war on terror and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent—is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new report An Unholy Alliance: Links Between Extremism...

"According to a new report commissioned by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and authored by Sir Ivor Roberts, a senior CEP senior advisor, terrorists groups continue to cash in on the illegal ivory trade to pay their soldiers."

Illicit trade in East Africa is facilitating and funding extremists, terrorists and warlords, a new Counter Extremism Project (CEP) report has revealed.

CEP report referenced: "Illicit trade is burning billion-dollar holes in the East African Community (EAC) bloc, fuelled by weak border controls and systemic political corruption by private interests, new report reveals."

"Tunisia has not taken a public stance on repatriation. 'More than 800 of [its] fighters have already returned — and quite a few of them undetected,' said Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Geneva-based Counter Extremism Project."

ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in March 2021

Following is the March 2021 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. Previous editions of ISIS Redux can be viewed through the following links: February...

"The Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a nonpartisan advocacy organization, was the first to notice the anti-Semitic and racist items. CEP wrote a letter to GearBubble CEO Donald Wilson on Feb. 4, informing him of the merchandise and asking GearBubble...