Violence wrought by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria has closed more than 2,000 schools and kept 1 million children out…
Conflict and drought are working in tandem to leave more than 23 million people food insecure in West Africa. Yet…
When the uniformed men started separating the Muslims from the Christians, she knew they were not police officers. The blockade,…
By David Francis, a freelance journalist who has been interviewing militant extremists across sub-Saharan Africa. The search for more than…
The Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls has helped galvanize world attention to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. As…
Boko Haram spokesperson Abubakar Shekau, speaking in the group’s new video. In a new video, Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram…
We don’t hear too much about al Qaeda these days, now that Osama bin Laden is dead. But perhaps that’s because what we have today is a much more dispersed, easy-to-miss phenomenon I call al Qaeda 2.0. Africa is where al Qaeda 2.0 is thriving.
The search for the school girls abducted in northern Nigeria continues a week after they were taken. However, there is…
The disaster following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines rightly has dominated the global twenty-four hour news cycle. Humanosphere has devoted…