Regional Overview: Africa 19-25 January 2020
Last week, heightened levels of demonstration activity continued on the back of ongoing nationwide anti-government demonstrations in Guinea. In the Sahel countries, militants employed contrasting tactics in their ongoing insurgency, predominantly targeting civilians in Burkina Faso and state forces in Mali.…
Regional Overview: Africa 12-18 January 2020
Last week, armed clashes and attacks on civilians fell across the continent. The most pronounced fall was recorded in Western Africa, where militant attacks in the Sahel have claimed hundreds of lives in recent weeks.…
Regional Overview: Africa 5-11 January 2020
Western Africa again dominated reported fatalities in the continent last week, with significant militant attacks on military bases recorded in the Sahel countries of Niger and Mali, as well as ongoing militant activity Nigeria.…
Regional Overview: Africa 1-7 December 2019
Last week, Western Africa continued to experience the highest rates of political violence recorded in the continent, as endemic instability across the Sahel and in Nigeria is pushing up conflict within and across states.…
Regional Overview: Africa 3 – 9 November 2019
This week, Africa experienced comparatively few attacks as a whole, but concentrated violence in certain regions was particularly lethal. Burkina Faso experienced its deadliest attack of the year, when suspected Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) militants ambushed a gendarme-escorted workers convoy from the Boungou gold mine, near Nassougou.…
Regional Overview – Africa 25 September 2019
Developments of the past week in Africa include operations against Al Shabaab in Somalia, inter-communal violence targeting civilians in Cameroon, and continued instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where Islamic State claimed an attack targeting security forces.…
Regional Overview – Africa 10 September 2019
During the first week of September, clashes erupted in the Central African Republic while violence persisted in Nigeria and Cameroon. Protests and violent demonstrations against xenophobic attacks in South Africa were held in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia. …
Regional Overview – Africa
30 July 2019
Notable developments in Africa during the week of July 21st, include Israeli airstrikes in Egypt, continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, and Lake Chad area, as well as a crackdown on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.…
