In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, the fatal attacks last week on contractors working at the development site of Anadarko’s LNG export facility on the Afungi Peninsula are believed to be the first such extremist attacks on foreign oil workers in the southeast African nation. Yet they’re by no means the…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
The head of the United Nations Office against Terrorism told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that countering the threat of foreign terrorist fighters returning from Iraq and Syria requires international cooperation. More than 40,000 combatants from over 110 countries had joined terrorist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, with…
Tucked into a new report on the threat that returning Islamic State jihadists pose to their home countries – or those to which they flee instead – is an interesting insight on how many Africans may see climate change as a more existential threat than the extremists. The report released…