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Quartz
Beijing has trained African officials on its sprawling system of censorship and surveillance.
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European Council on Foreign Relations
China is taking on a new military role in Africa, seeking to boost its image as a great power that promotes peace and security worldwide
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Stratfor
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to create a joint task force dedicated to counterterrorism in five countries in the Sahel region of Africa, Sweden's U.N. Twitter account reported.
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Stratfor
With the campaign against Islamist militancy winding down in the Middle East, Africa could soon be the new focus of operations -- for militants and their opponents alike.
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Military history visualized
Data used is from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) - acleddata.com. Data for Africa from 1/1997 to 2/2019 - www.acleddata.com/data/ (...
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Stratfor
After years in the Middle East, global militant groups have begun setting up shop in the Sahel region. And that's a problem for the booming economies of nearby Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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Stratfor
Escalating violence risks forcing France and its allies to rethink their counterterrorism efforts in the vast African warzone, as the question of whether foreign involvement can even improve the crumbling situation looms ever larger.
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The New York Times
The deliberations stem from a push to reduce missions battling distant terrorist groups, and to instead refocus on confronting so-called Great Powers like Russia and China.
