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The changing face of Burkina Faso’s terrorist threat

Africa Mahamoudou Savadogo - 29 Jan 2020

Burkina Faso has been experiencing regular attacks led by armed terrorist groups from neighbouring countries. Surrounded by six countries, it is the northern part...

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Complex Isis bureaucracy includes department of ‘War Spoils’

Article Warren Strobel - 28 Dec 2015

Seized documents detail the militant group's plan to manage revenue streams - including pillaged oil - and oversee subjugated populations.

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Hate campaign suits Islamic State’s jihad agenda

Analysis Staff Reporter - 26 Nov 2015

Islamic State terrorists applaud when ignorant, bigoted Westerners turn their anger on Muslims.

Protesters want justice for the murder of Avijit Roy

Article Shafiqul Alam - 27 Feb 2015

Protesters rallied in Dhaka, denouncing the murder of prominent American blogger Avijit Roy, and chanting "raise your voice against militants".

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Jordan executes jihadists in retaliation for Isis murder

Article Staff Reporter - 4 Feb 2015

Jordan has responded to Islamic extremist group Isis's burning alive of fighter pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by executing two jihadists on death row.

Kenyan unions warn civil servants to leave amid ‘danger’ of attacks

Africa Peter Martell 1 - 25 Nov 2014

Kenyan teachers' union leader, Wilson Sossion, says that the lives of Kenyan civil servants are "clearly in danger" from insurgent attacks.

South African Muslims reject the violence of extremists

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Aug 2014

More than a thousand SA Muslims have signed a petition rejecting the actions of militant groups such as Isis, Boko Haram, al-Shabab and al-Qaeda.

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Nigeria rules out prisoner swap for missing girls

Africa Ola Awoniyi - 15 May 2014

Nigeria has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants.

Press ombud decides not to ban Islamic terms

Article Sapa - 16 Oct 2013

The press ombud has declined a request to ban the use of the words "Islamist militants" and "militant Islam" from SA newspaper reports.

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School massacre: 42 killed in Nigeria’s Yobe

Africa Staff Reporter - 8 Jul 2013

Nigeria's Yobe state has ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist extremists kill 42 people.

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Boko Haram drives 19 000 farmers from land in Nigeria

Africa Sapa Ap - 18 Jun 2013

The rebel group has driven 19 000 rice farmers from their land, while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields.

Malian civilians form militia to combat extremists

Africa Serge Daniel - 30 Aug 2012

With authorities failing to stand up to the aggression of invading extremist groups, Malians are forming rag-tag militias to defend their homes.

UK ‘failed to win over estranged Muslims’

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Dec 2010

Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" after the 7/7 London bombing.

Extremism has no place in Islam

Analysis Imraan Buccus - 29 Jan 2010

In South Africa questions are being asked about the World Cup and the potential for muslim extremism.

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