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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
Africa
Africa
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The Shabab control large parts of Somalia and raise considerable funds through local taxation and extortion. The group has carried out deadly attacks not only in Somalia but also in Kenya and Uganda.
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (3rd L) and his Chinese President Xi Jinping (3rd R) shake hands during a signing ceremony for a visa exemption agreement in the Great Hall of the People August 19, 2013 in Beijing,
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A busy road in Kaduna, Nigeria
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Migrants who fled fighting in the Ethiopia‘s Tigray region gather at the border reception center in Hamdiyet, Sudan, Nov. 14.
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The aftermath of an attack by Islamist rebels on the village of Aldeia da Paz last year outside Macomia, Mozambique.
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Oromo regional police officers wait in a pick up car during the Oromo new year holiday Irreechaa in Bishoftu on October 2, 2016 (ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years.
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
