The Senegalese authorities have arrested more than 500 people as part of a security crackdown after terrorist attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali.

By Jeremy H. Keenan Africa’s Sahel region has been in the international news a lot since 2012, largely because of its increasing political instability and insecurity.

”Midnight Orchestra,” by a Moroccan-French director is screening at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2016.

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has taken control of Algeria’s security and intelligence services by forming a new leadership for the entire sector, newspapers reported Monday.

At least 20 people died and 17 were wounded after a suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a beachside restaurant-hotel in the capital of Somalia, authorities said. Six attackers were also killed.

The spectre of terrorism now hovers over much of the region. During the past 12 months alone, two other Sahelian capitals – Bamako and N’Djamena – also experienced their first ever jihadist incidents.

A terror attack at a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital has left at least 21 people dead, including two militants, and highlighted the world’s growing vulnerability to extremist violence.

Six Canadians died in a bloody terror attack on a luxury hotel and cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, that killed at least 28 and injured countless others over the weekend.

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A few weeks before she was killed in a raid by French special forces beside the suspected ringleader of last November’s Paris attacks, Hasna Ait Boulahcen packed her bags and said her last farewells to relatives in...