Africa: The Widening Scope of Africa's Militant Islamist Threat: [ACSS] Increasingly capable and organized militant Islamist groups in the Sahel, Somalia, and the Lake Chad Basin continue to expand their reach and lethality. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRvZsy #Africa #MilitantThreat #IslamistGroups #Sahel #Somalia

Al Qaeda-linked group claims to kill 21 soldiers in Mali http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TMc88X #Mali #AlQaeda #IslamistGroups #WestAfrica #HumanTrafficking

UN concerned after Niger quits force fighting armed Islamist groups http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJxpWt #UN #Niger #IslamistGroups #WestAfrica #Sahel