Horn, Sahel, and Rift : Fault-Lines of the African Jihad

Stig Jarle Hansen

ISBN 10: 1849044147 / ISBN 13: 9781849044141

Edité par Hurst & Co. Jul 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Profiles the range of Islamist groups in Africa, which are on the rise today.

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• Titre: Horn, Sahel, and Rift : Fault-Lines of the African Jihad
• Éditeur: Hurst & Co. Jul 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1849044147
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781849044141
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 223 L x 147 H x 27 P (en millimètres) 223 millimètres de largeur par 147 millimètres de hauteur par 27 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 533 grammes

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Synopsis

The 1998 attaThe 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of their campaigns of insurgent and terrorist violence directed against the state in Algeria, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya. These groups include Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Harakat Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and Ansar Dine.
This book explains why the Idea of Jihad is alive and well in sub-Saharan Africa, even after more than thirty years of Western and global efforts to curtail it, and how most important organisations are formed by the interaction between the often under-estimated local and global dynamics.
Stig Jarle Hansen has been researching African radical violent Islamism for more than fifteen years and is well placed to explain how and why such groups emerged, whether they manifest any specific traits compared with other violent Islamists, and what is likely to be their impact beyond the African continent. He also discusses the response of African and Western governments to this phenomenon
cks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organizations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of their campaigns of insurgent and terrorist violence directed against the state in Algeria, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali and Kenya. These groups include Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Harakat Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa and Ansar Dine. Evidence has emerged to suggest that beyond shared political objectives they are also collaborating in terms of finance, propaganda, arms transfers and training, while Western governments believe some of them maintain links with Al-Qaeda "central."

Stig Jarle Hansen has been researching African radical violent Islamism for more than ten years and is well placed to explain how and why such groups emerged, whether they manifest any specific traits compared with other violent Islamists, and what is likely to be their impact beyond the African continent. He also discusses the response of African and Western governments to this phenomenon.

À propos de l?auteur

Stig Jarle Hansen is based at the University of Life Sciences in Akershus, where he led Norway's only MA in International Relations (2010-16). He has conducted extensive field studies in Africa, speaks Somali, Swahili and Arabic, and is the author of the acclaimed Al-Shabaab in Somalia, also published by Hurst (2013).