Boko Haram
- Damilola Banjo
- • January 10, 2023
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LAGOS — The International Crisis Group has listed the jihadist violence in the Sahel region in West Africa as one of the 10 violent flash points to watch in 2023. The conflict area covers Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Damilola Banjo
- • August 1, 2022
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LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations verified the abduction of 4,278 children in 21 countries last year in its recent annual report on children and armed conflict, but it failed to acknowledge widespread kidnappings throughout northwest and north-central Nigeria…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, Secretary-General, Terrorism
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- Opinion by Ann Phillips
- • May 4, 2016
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Terrorism and violent extremism are the most dramatic threats in the 21st century to state monopoly on the use of force, a cornerstone of the international system. In recent years, the failure of early counterterrorism efforts to…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 1, 2016
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Grim images from the small world of children are multiplying. Little bodies adrift in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Uncomprehending faces pressed against wire fences and barricades in Europe from the Balkans to the French port of Calais. At…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Child Soldiers, Middle East
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 16, 2015
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An offensive against Boko Haram by a regional task force is preparing to deploy, led by Nigeria and its partners — Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin. At least that is the plan. Troops will number about 8,000 soldiers, with…
- Categories: Africa, Terrorism, UN Peacekeeping
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 30, 2015
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In 1973, Jesse Helms, a newly elected United States senator and an ideologue contemptuous of the United Nations, dismissive of international treaties and completely devoid of compassion for the world’s poor, put his name on an amendment to the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Opinion by Janet Benshoof
- • April 16, 2015
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It was a year ago this week that the terrorist group Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) not long ago, carried out a late-night abduction of 276 girls from their boarding…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 23, 2015
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Chad is not only leading the regional military assault on the Boko Haram terrorist group but it is also said to be leading the drafting of a United Nations Security Council resolution to authorize the multinational task force in…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Alexander Brotman
- • February 16, 2015
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As Boko Haram’s raging insurgency in northeast Nigeria shows no signs of letup, Nigeria’s neighbors are taking the lead in fighting back against the Islamic terrorist group, which has killed nearly 10,000 people from 2013 to 2014 alone and…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 12, 2012
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The Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, winner of Africa’s first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, has published a new book calling for urgent action by Africans to save themselves from the threat of Islamic extremism, against which corrupt regimes…
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