Jacob Zenn

Jacob Zenn is a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation focusing on Nigeria and Central Asia. He is also an adjunct assistant professor on African armed movements and violent nonstate actors in world politics for Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and the editor of Terrorism Monitor.

Articles by Jacob Zenn
Bladed weapons seized from an Islamic State-affiliated cell are seen during a press conference by the director of Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation in Sale, near Rabat, on Sept. 11, 2020.
Bladed weapons seized from an Islamic State-affiliated cell are seen during a press conference by the director of Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation in Sale, near Rabat, on Sept. 11, 2020.

The Islamic State’s Signing Bonus

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Jacob Zenn, Colin P. Clarke
Prisoners charged with belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated MUJAO armed group are taken out of a jail at the gendarmerie in the northern Malian city of Gao while they wait to be transferred on a military flight to Bamako on Feb. 26, 2013.
Prisoners charged with belonging to the al Qaeda-affiliated MUJAO armed group are taken out of a jail at the gendarmerie in the northern Malian city of Gao while they wait to be transferred on a military flight to Bamako on Feb. 26, 2013.

Al Qaeda and ISIS Had a Truce in Africa—Until They Didn’t

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Jacob Zenn, Colin P. Clarke
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Boko Haram’s Buyer’s Remorse

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Jacob Zenn
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