{"product_id":"africa-in-the-line-of-fire-jihadist-sponsored-conflicts-within-africa-and-the-security-implications-beyond-the-continent","title":"Africa - In the Line of Fire: Jihadist-Sponsored Conflicts Within Africa and the Security Implications Beyond the Continent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eExamines Africa’s escalating conflicts, highlighting Jihadist insurgencies and their regional and global security implications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrica currently faces more wars, insurgencies, army mutinies, coups d’état and rebellions than at any time since World War II. Conflict in all forms has become endemic, now accentuated by a relative newcomer: Jihadism, increasingly linked to either Islamic State or al-Qaeda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year 2020 saw a record high in state-based conflicts on the African continent: around 22,000 incidents of armed conflict recorded. There were two dozen country-based military struggles recorded, three or four more than in 2018. Of these, 13 battled over territory, the highest number ever. Incidents of conflict have risen each year since, and the broader canvas since Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine suggests things will continue to worsen. Islamic Jihadist forces are responsible for much of this, involved in a succession of conflicts in Africa. These range all the way across the Sub-Sahara swathe, Mauretania, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad, the Sudans as well as Somalia. A more recent entrant to the fray is Tanzania, whose Dar es Salaam government in late 2021 appealed to the European Union for military help to counter an escalating Jihadist insurgency in its southern province.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe upward trend is sobering. And there are long-term security implications both within and beyond Africa—if conditions do deteriorate, Europe will ultimately be threatened. Veteran war correspondent Al Venter brings his decades of experience to illuminate what Islamic Jihadist forces are effecting in Africa, and why, and what the future may hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Africa\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 The Colonel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 War Without End in West Africa’s Mali\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Insurgent Groups in the Sahel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Why the French Moved into West Africa in Force\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 Mali’s Guerrilla Struggle – The Inside Story\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Understanding Jihadist Philosophy and Motivation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 West Africa’s Drone War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 New Jihadist Uprisings – Mozambique and the Congo\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 Forerunner – the never-ending Somali Insurrection\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 New Threats – Islamic Thrusts into Africa’s Horn\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 Central African Republic’s Jihadist Civil War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 How Portugal – Alone - has coped with CAR’s Troubles\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15 Looking Back at Chad’s Insurrections\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16 Newcomer: South Africa’s Growing Islamic Threat\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17 Why Africa’s Insurgencies Threaten Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Al J. Venter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58726509379744,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/4287\/4272\/files\/71Tj9skbDmL._SL1500.jpg?v=1786792330","url":"https:\/\/blackbookswholesale.com\/products\/africa-in-the-line-of-fire-jihadist-sponsored-conflicts-within-africa-and-the-security-implications-beyond-the-continent","provider":"Black Books Wholesale ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}