by raffaellopantucci | May 17, 2014 | Monitor
Another piece with a RUSI colleague, this time Matthew Cadoux-Hudson, for our collective institutional home looking at Boko Haram in the wake of the Chibok girl’s kidnapping. It builds on bigger work that we are doing on this topic at the moment and I have at...
by Charles Cameron | May 14, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — one on the scripturally-sanctioned revenge abductions of women and the other on Hausa nomenclature, with a possible correlate in Sudan ] . ** Boko Haram and revenge: Jacob Zenn and Elizabeth Pearson have an important piece on War on the...
by Charles Cameron | May 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — “if wishes were horses” as the saying goes ] . The BBC made a point of showing a group of the schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity in contrast with some of those who escaped… ** Here’s Col Pat Lang‘s assessment...
by raffaellopantucci | Jul 16, 2013 | Monitor
A longer piece that I wrote a little while ago that is testimony I offered to the British Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, but has only been published now. It explores the threat in relation to the UK and how British interests are affected by what is happening...
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 14, 2013 | Monitor
Here’s an indicator of how the U.S. military considers northern and eastern Africa the next major battlefield of the ongoing war on terrorism. “Countering violent extremist groups” will be the “first priority” of the U.S. Africa Command,...
