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Fraudulent Covid-19 benefit claims surge since beginning of pandemic
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Fraudulent Covid-19 benefit claims surge since beginning of pandemic
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20 years after 9/11: The evolving transnational militant Islamist threat landscape
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Counter-terrorism effort faces resurgent Islamist militancy in Sahel
by Murtala Touray
Operation ‘Barkhane’, the French-led multinational counter-terrorism operation in the Sahel, was launched in August 2014 and despite seven years of operations, the security situation in the Sahel is not improving. Notable and escalating attacks by militant Islamist groups in the first half of 2021 indicated that these groups are growing in confidence and capability.
For example, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) militants attacked two villages in the Tondikiwindi commune in northern Niger on 2 January, killing at least 100 civilians. Then, on 15 and 21 March, 66 and 137 people were killed respectively following raids on several villages near the border with Mali.
Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyya faction s claimed kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in Katsina state indicates expansion of Islamist militancy to northwest Nigeria
16 December 2020
Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyya faction s claimed kidnapping of more than 300 schoolboys in Katsina state indicates expansion of Islamist militancy to northwest Nigeria
by Heather Nicell
More than 300 schoolboys were kidnapped during an attack by at least 100 armed gunmen on motorcycles at Government Science Secondary School in Kankara town in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina in on 11 December. An armed clash broke out between security forces present in the town and the assailants, causing students to flee and hide in the surrounding bushes and forested areas. In an audio message released on 15 December, responsibility for the attack was claimed by Mohammed Abubakar bin Mohammad (alias ‘Abubakar Shekau’), the leader of the dissident Jamaat Ahl al-Sunna lil-Dawa wal-Jihad (JAS), a faction of the Isla