by John Bugnacki | May 12, 2015 | Monitor
The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria, has recently declared its allegiance to the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS or Daesh, and renamed itself the Islamic State’s West...
by Matt Freear | Jun 13, 2013 | Monitor
This October sees the twentieth anniversary of events that came to be known as Black Hawk Down, in which eighteen US military personnel and hundreds of Somalis died. Over a thousand Somalis were injured, hundreds of them civilians, though estimates vary greatly. It so...
by Abdullahi Osman El-Tom | Mar 26, 2013 | Monitor
By: Abdullahi Osman El-Tom Maintaining official armies in Africa makes little security, political or economic sense. The continent will do better without them altogether
by Matt Freear | Nov 15, 2012 | Monitor
This week, Somali Parliamentarians endorsed the formation of a new, smaller cabinet government, including the first female Foreign Minister for the country. Last month, they ratified Abdi Farah Shirdon as the new Prime Minister of Somalia. With the end of a tortuous...
by Matt Freear | Oct 16, 2012 | Monitor
AU/UN IST Photo – Stuart Price As the new chair of the African Union’s political and security commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, took up her post today, she vowed to tackle the growing ills of Mali and Islamic extremism in the Sahel . In large part, she was...
