Oromo women protest against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over violence in their homeland in 2020.
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Ethiopia’s largest region is pushing for self-determination - it hasn’t gone down well with Abiy Ahmed’s vision of a centralised state.
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Scholars explain how and why terrorists appear to be running rampant across Nigeria.
The world has seen widespread climate protests in recent years.
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Global climate movements have espoused nonviolence, but some are adopting more radical tactics in light of the increasing threats posed by climate change.
The ill-fated nineteen: the only known photo of the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood members who went to Yugoslavia in 1972.
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A largely forgotten incursion behind the Iron Curtain had reverberations in both countries
Parents and relatives of abducted students demanding the release of their families who had spent 55 days in captivity as at March 12, 2021.
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Nigerians are at risk of kidnapping as the cost of committing this crime is far less than its benefits.
The mass shooting in Buffalo is the latest to involve Norse symbolism in the attacker’s manifesto.
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Norse symbols and references to Valhalla repeatedly show up the manifestos of far right terrorists. An expert explains why.
A person visits a makeshift memorial near the scene of the fatal shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on May 19, 2022.
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The far-right today shares more than just ideas with white supremacists of yesterday – they also share some pagan-inspired symbols.
A memorial to the victims of the mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket.
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There is a mental and psychological dimension to what leads people to commit mass killings. But it is not mental illness or pathology.
Room for any more at NATO? Not according to Turkey’s president.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is against allowing two Nordic countries to join NATO over what he deems their support of ‘terrorists.’ His opposition will test the alliance’s unity.
Machmudi ‘Yusuf’ Hariono, left, a former Indonesian terrorist, holds a book about former terrorists with an Islamic jihadist.
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The US gives money to help Indonesia and other countries fight terrorism. But research shows that this money might not be effective, unless it directly reaches former extremists.
In 2019, members of an anti-banditry vigilante group disarmed in Zamfara but this has not halted attacks from bandits.
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To end banditry, Nigeria first needs to tackle poverty, hunger and unemployment.
Somali police officers in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2018.
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A transition is underway in Somalia. There are massive risks if it is not handled with great care.
Residents fleeing their homes in Plateau State, north central Nigeria, on April 12, 2022 after their houses were burnt during an attack by bandits.
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The Nigerian government needs to understand that banditry is an act of warfare and should be treated as such.
Bodies lie on the ground after a strike in Bucha, a suburb on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
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President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
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Western governments’ anti-terrorism strategies are now colliding with public sympathy for Ukraine, and its people’s desperation to fight Russia with any means.
A soldier salutes during a recent Armed Forces Day parade in South Africa attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The declining defence budget has eroded the operating and capital expenditure of the military, leaving insufficient funds for the replacement of equipment, maintenance, and infrastructure.
Dream of a caliphate as an Islamist homeland is receding.
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The caliphate has no territory, but plenty of hearts and minds.
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Boni forest provides a haven for military training and a staging point for hit and run tactics.
Special forces arrive at the scene of a terrorist attack at the DusitD2 hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2019.
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It is often difficult to place an imminent terrorist attack in a location or time.
The rubble after the raid on Islamic State group leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
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Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi had led the terrorist group since 2019. His death may lead to uncertainty over who will replace him but may not signal the group’s demise.