This article questions the current narrative paradigm and argues that al-Shabaab attacks
Kenya for strategic and highly rational reasons, beyond sharing a border and having bases …

Where police corruption is persistent, it represents a systemic failure of governance where
the principal institutions responsible for ensuring police governance, the observance of …

This article examines changing patterns of governance characterised by devolution as well
as other developments associated with shifting centre-periphery relationships and their …

Based on unique field work in southern Somalia, this article explores how the
interrelationship between jihadi insurgent rulers and traditional authority structures fostered …

Somalia has been a hotspot for terrorism and instability since the early 1990s. Al-Shabaab,
an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, has been successful in carrying out a number of deadly …

Police corruption has emerged as a serious security challenge in Kenya. Where police
corruption is persistent, it represents a systemic failure of governance in which the principal …

The prevailing discourse in Mogadishu among the federal government of Somalia and the
international community is that Al-Shabaab is no longer relevant in contemporary Somali …

We relate terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya to examine how
terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns. Exploiting …

The objective of this qualitative study is to raise awareness of the online presence of al-
Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab and Boko Haram by analyzing and …

Despite the growing body of academic literature that seeks to explain the evolution of Al-
Shabaab, the movement remains one of the least understood on the continent. This article …