Joshua Meservey is a senior policy analyst for Africa and the Middle East within the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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Kenyan police announced this week that they had arrested a man interning at a Kenyan hospital who was planning a major anthrax attack on the… Read More
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Once a model for emerging African democracies, South Africa is now mired in corruption that undermines its economy, provokes social unrest, and betrays the dreams… Read More
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Earlier this month, Morocco’s head of counterterrorism, Abdelhak Khiame, warned that the Islamic State (ISIS) is trying to build chemical weapons to use in an… Read More
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At dawn on Feb. 10, a camp for displaced people in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa began stirring to life. Three unaccompanied young girls… Read More
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The small North African country of Tunisia suffered another major terror attack, the third this year. The attack should remind the world that Tunisia faces… Read More
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Hard on the heels of attacks in Beirut and Paris, terrorists have struck again. This time, an unconfirmed number of gunmen stormed the upscale Radisson… Read More
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The Islamic State is likely taking a dangerous new tack in its war on all those who disagree with it. While there is much we… Read More
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Last week, two press freedom groups—Reporters Without Borders and the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory—issued a press release detailing the plight of independent media in the northern… Read More
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A flood of Middle East refugees into Europe has held the world’s attention and sympathy since August. The European Union recently committed to taking in… Read More
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Reuters recently reported on a contingent of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel in southern Niger assisting the West African country in its battle against… Read More
