Lawfare Daily: Terrorism and Insurgency in sub-Saharan Africa
Breaking down the growth of terrorism and instability in East and West Africa.
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, former CIA Africa analyst, and Alexander Palmer, fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss the growth of terrorism and instability in East and West Africa, the fragility of regional governments, and how the United States and other outside powers are shaping the region.
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Daniel Byman is a professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.
Holly Berkley Fletcher is a former Senior Africa Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she covered multiple African countries for 19 years. She was raised in Kenya by evangelical missionaries. She is also an American historian and author of the Substack A Zebra Without Stripes and the forthcoming book The Missionary Kids: Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism.
Alexander Palmer is a fellow in the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, he worked in Afghanistan, where he provided security analysis to humanitarian and UN staff before and after the withdrawal of international military forces in August 2021. He holds a master in public policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
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