The Guinean junta’s growing repression and intolerance for dissent risk derailing the promised transition back to civilian government while deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis. Three members of the Guinean opposition—Oumar Sylla (also known as Foniké

“Suspected Boko Haram terrorists armed with rifles and RPGs attacked Mafa ward on more than 50 motorcycles…” Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents attacked Mafa village in Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe, killing

With its popularity in Hausa-speaking Northern Nigeria, TikTok has become an unexpectedly powerful weapon in the hands of armed groups who join trends and directly engage people on the platform. Northwestern Nigeria, long bedevilled by

When violence broke out in the Bokkos area of Plateau state, foreign and local disinformation mercenaries claimed government-backed terrorists were on a mission to wipe out the Christian population in Nigeria during the last Christmas

Burkina Faso’s government vowed a decisive response after over 200 were killed in the Barsalogho terror attack. Interim President Traore has made fighting terrorism a top priority. “In this backlash, we will make sure that

While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information warfare alone as proven by its failures in Burkina Faso, the

The US-led Western Mainstream Media’s rebranding of Malian terrorists as “fighters/militants/rebels” (albeit extremist/jihadi ones) in the past few months since that country demanded the withdrawal of French forces was in hindsight meant to precondition the