New Frontiers of Terrorism in Africa: Proceedings of Colloquium 17 March 2021

This volume is a collection of the proceedings of the international conference "New Frontiers of Terrorism in Africa," that was held as an online event due to COVID-19. It marks the academic collaboration between the Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, South Africa and the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. The conference was held on 17 March 2021 open to a global public audience. The welcome remarks were by Professor Irina Abramova, Director of the Institute for Africa Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, the Opening Remarks were by Ambassador Ilya Igorevich Rogachev, HE Mr (Ambassador of Russian Federation to South Africa) and Ambassador (Rtd) Haim Koren, HE Dr (Former Ambassador of State of Israel to Egypt and South Sudan) A video recording of the webinar was made available after the event. There has been a rigorous peer-review of the presentations published in this volume. The volume has been edited by Dr. Glen Segell (Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf States Research, University of Haifa), Dr Sergey Kostelyanets (Institute for African Studies), and Professor Hussein Solomon (University of the Free State). Contributors in addition to Chapters from the Editors are also Chapters from the Institute for African Studies by Dr. Natalia A. Zherlitsina, Dr. Tatyana S. Denisova, Dr Leonid L. Futini and Professor Vladimir G. Shubin; from The University of the Free State by Dr Anneli Botha, Prof Theo Neethling, Dr. Alta Grobbelaar and Mr Willem Els; from the Ezri Center, University of Haifa by Dr. Moshe Terdiman; and from the South African Military Academy by Professor Abel Esterhuyse.