Al-Shabaabhas suffered enormous setbacks Al-Shabaab may control large swathes of rural south and central Somalia but in recent months the radical group has suffered enormous setbacks, including territorial losses, high-ranking commanders killed and major defections. The Somalia National Army (SNA) has received adequate training from AMISOM and allies including Turkey […]
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Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant group released a video of the terrorists involved in the Dusit attack. The video features the dejected faces of the terrorists who attacked the business complex on January 15, 2019 that also hosts the Dusit D2 luxury hotel. During the attack, 21 people were killed and […]
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Borrowing the example of the three Adam brothers in the UK 2004, radicalisation needs to be examined further from an individual point. A case of three brothers who were exposed to the plight of Iraq and Iran Muslims. They were exposed to videos that came with the technical, tactical, and […]
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Women form an important social base for the Islamist Extremist groups. Some help to recruit, generate funds, and carry out operations. Alshabaab, ISIS and Boko Haram, use sexual violence because it disrupts and further destabilizes families and communities, and stigmatizes women. This form of violence has distinct and devastating consequences […]
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Community resilience offers a remedy for countering violent extremism and radicalisation. This approach leads to understanding the individual motivations of those who chose to take the pathway. The approach focuses its attention on community resilience and other non-military and legal methods to deal with threats of terrorism and radicalisation. Communities […]
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A family of seven, including four children, were killed in what is believed to be an Al Shabaab attack in Wajid district, Somalia. Authorities present at the scene of the crime were perturbed and disgusted by the acts of the extremist group. It is not clear as to why they […]
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Ever since the US Africa Command commenced airstrikes against the Al Shabaab offensive in Somalia, the militant group has lost many key leaders. Early this year after an airstrike the US confirmed the death of Bashir Mohamed Qorgab, an individual who was on the US most wanted list for human […]
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“Part of the Amisom mandate is to ensure harmony and progress amongst the communities within which we operate, said Brigadier Paul Njema, the Sector 2 Commander, who took over in February. The statement came on Friday 20th November 2020 after the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] soldiers serving under the African […]
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Terrorism is a scourge that has been largely associated with men as they are the overall leaders for major terrorist groups operating around the world. In the past, women’s roles in terrorism were limited to supporting their male relatives, educating their children in the ideology, and facilitating terrorist operations. In […]
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Radicalization: A menace to Society A Society is built on structures and belief systems i.e. the distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together. These are fundamentally political, religious, family, law, economy, or class. So what happens when these structures are radicalized? Well, […]
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