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

Analysis: Egypt has signed a military pact with Somalia and will deploy peacekeeping troops next year. But is Cairo playing with fire? Rapid developments in Egyptian-Somali relations culminated in the signing of a military cooperation