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Australian Police Train Officers in Islam Sensitivity
March 28, 2018
Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is augmenting training in cybersecurity and law enforcement related to threats from radical Islamism, including from foreign fighters returning from Iraq and Syria, with a three-day training initiative educating AFP members on cultural and historical issues of sensitivity to Muslim communities.
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Cameroon Faces Boko Haram Threat from Women, Children
March 28, 2018
Officials from Cameroon’s military report the growing cross-border threat from Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in the form of women and children targeted for recruitment, based on recent arrests revealing that women and children were involved as suicide bombers and transporters of weapons and food.
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Muslim Cleric Preaches for Islamic Banking in East Africa
March 28, 2018
One of Uganda's best-known Muslim clerics is using public preaching to promote the introduction of Islamic banking in Uganda, presenting sharia-compliant banking practices as an economic development opportunity for the country and as consistent with Muslims' religious obligations in East Africa's third-largest economy.
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Experts Suspect Islamist Rebels of Congo Civilian Massacre
March 28, 2018
Experts suspect the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a coalition of Islamist groups committed to overthrowing the government of Uganda, of perpetrating a massacre of civilians in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, part of a cross-border military campaign whose civilian casualties have drawn attention from the UN and several states in Central Africa.
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Nigeria Pitches Proposal to Negotiate Boko Haram Amnesty
March 28, 2018
The proposal by Nigeria's president for negotiating an amnesty with the Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been waging a long war to impose sharia in West Africa, has provoked controversy in Nigerian politics centered around the ideological intentions of the jihadist group's competing factions and the integration of former jihadists into their home communities.
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