For the first time ever, Nigeria is the world\u2019s largest source of Daesh\/ISIS attacks. As local and international partners address the evolving focus of violent extremism, a new podcast series asks: what do we know about terrorism in West Africa, and what can we do about it?<\/p>\n
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Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition <\/em>is a nine-episode series in which our host, Fatma Ahmed, brings together world-renowned experts from Nigeria, the Lake Chad Basin, and beyond to analyse and deconstruct the reality of terrorist group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition, <\/em>we hear how climate change is directly affecting not just communities but gives ISWAP new opportunities; and how women are essential agents in dismantling terror groups.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fatma Ahmed is a governance, peace and security expert working with the United Nations to support programmes in this field<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition<\/em> follows the award winning Taking Apart Terror <\/em>\u2013 which was the recipient of the Bronze Lovie & People\u2019s Lovie Winner 2022 for the Best Crime & Justice Podcast and a finalist for the Best International Affairs Podcast at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2022.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fatma Ahmed is a governance, peace and security expert working with the United Nations to support programmes in this field. She notes:\u00a0\u201cBeing able to bring these experts and expertise together in this particular Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition<\/em>, it can really help contribute to the discussion in preventing the threats faced that we face in the region as a result of terrorism and violent extremism but, also, looking at opportunities and really providing that African narrative, the African stories, the African experience to these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa Edition<\/em> unpacks the realities of ISWAP, increases our understanding of efforts put in place to fight them and explores how, by understanding Daesh\/ISIS, we can strengthen efforts to reduce its appeal, see the group for what it really is, and better understand what we can do about them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time ever, Nigeria is the world\u2019s largest source of Daesh\/ISIS attacks. As local and international partners address the evolving focus of violent extremism, a new podcast series asks: what do we know about terrorism in West Africa, and what can we do about it? Taking Apart Terror: The West Africa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,76,300,303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-government","category-society","category-sponsored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}