This report focuses on operations throughout the Sahel in August 2023, which were claimed by al-Qaeda and ISIS propaganda outlets. In total, 57 different operations were claimed by these groups. One of the most important events in August was the...
This report focuses on operations throughout the Sahel in July 2023 claimed by the propaganda outlets of al-Qaeda and ISIS. In total, 45 different operations were claimed by these groups. Noteworthy are two separate clashes on the Burkina Faso-Togo...
This report is the seventh installment in a monthly series focused on al-Qaeda and Islamic State operations throughout the Sahel. This report will focus on operations claimed in the month of June 2023, where the general threat environment observed...
This week, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) published a second set of new reports, Linkages Of Terrorist Groups In West Africa With Terrorist Networks In Other African Regions and Interlinkage Of Terrorism And Transnational Organized Crime In West...
This week, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) published a pair of new reports, Development Of Al-Qaeda In The Western Sahel Region and Status Of ISWAP And ISGS In West Africa And Sahel. These reports are the first of a range of policy papers...
This sixth monthly analytical report based on open source observations of Jihadi activities throughout the Sahel will focus on the most significant events that occurred in May 2023. After the relative calm during the previous months and the lack of a...
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) invite you to a webinar on Thursday, June 22, 2023, focusing on deteriorating security situation in West Africa and the Sahel region.
In the first quarter of 2023, more than 1,100 civilians and nearly 100 security officials were killed in Nigeria. Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP), were responsible for 22 percent, or 272, of civilian...
This fifth monthly analytical report based on open source observations of Jihadi activities throughout the Sahel will focus on the most significant events that occurred in April 2023. The month of April partly overlapped with the holy month of...
This fourth monthly analytical report on open source observations of Jihadi activities throughout the Sahel will focus on the most significant events that occurred in March 2023. The month of March partly coincided with the holy month of Ramadan...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On September 26, 2018, an improvised explosive device planted at the foot of a bridge exploded, killing eight soldiers in the lead vehicle of a Burkinabe military convoy traveling in northern Burkina Faso.
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