Fulcrum Intel Digest and Fulcrum Analytics

Full portfolio:

  • Predictive Terrorism Outlook for 2026: African Actors to Watch

  • Al-Qaeda's Branch in West Africa, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), Reportedly Expands to Nigeria

  • Hearts and Minds: Al Shabaab's Propaganda Machine

  • It's not just M23: CODECO and ISCAP Persist in Eastern DRC

  • New Tactics: First Known Islamic State Mozambique (IS-M) Attack on Tourist Destination

  • ISWAP Cubs: Islamic State Video Reportage Showcases Life of Child Soldiers in West Africa

  • Examining the security situation on the African Continent

  • Proof-of-Life Image Emerges for Austrian National Currently Held by Islamic State Sahel Province (ISSP)

  • The Lesotho-South Africa Land Question: A Comprehensive Intelligence Analysis of Historical Dynamics and Contemporary Developments - co-authored with Itumeleng Oe Selia

  • The Caliphate in Central Africa: The Rising Threat of Terrorism in Uganda

  • The Puntland Problem: Between Islamic State and Al-Shabaab

  • "The South African Networker": Fatima Patel celebrated online by Islamic State supporters

  • Eyes on Africa: ISCAP Releases Propaganda Video from DRC

  • Framing Conflict: The Sahel's Video Propaganda Game

Original written publications available here. Fulcrum Intel Digest YouTube channel available here.

Global Weekly (GW)

  • Founder of the GW OSINT Division.

  • Lead a team of experienced OSINT professionals who manage units of analysts to produce OSINT Investigations and Sitreps on underreported topics.

  • Podcast: Vicarious Trauma in OSINT

  • Rapid Sitrep: Desertion of Makalondi, Tillaberi Region, Niger - co-authored with Jenna Dolecek and Daniel Piper

  • Special Update Briefing 12/11/2024 - New armed Islamist group 'Lakurawas' emerges in Nigeria

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

Highlights from my work at the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)’s Sahel and West Africa Division. Content produced for CIR is confidential.

  • Contributed to rapid OSINT sitreps of strategically-important developments, including drone strikes, massacres, and terrorist activity.

  • Contributed to weekly client briefs on terrorism, conflict and human rights abuses.

  • Conducted OSINT investigations on TTPs.

  • Presented OSINT training in French to African journalists.

Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC)

Highlights from my work at TRAC. Full portfolio available here.

  • OSINT Investigation: Identifying Key Roads Used by ISCAP, ISWAP, ISSP, ISS, Al-Shabaab, JNIM, and Others in Africa

  • Group Profile of the Wagner Group: Theatres of Operation, Leadership Profiles, Targets, Tactics, Mapping etc.

  • TRAC Insight: Al-Qaeda Voice of Africa Emphasis on the Danger of Education, Media and Healthcare in Nigeria

  • TRAC Insight: Islamic State (IS) Insiders Celebrate Fifth Anniversary of Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) Takeover of Mozambican Port Town Mocímboa da Praia and Predict Expansion into Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe

  • TRAC Insight: Islamic State Announces Expansion Into Benin in Naba Issue #356

  • (Photo and Video Report/Al-Kataib Foundation) Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan Training Camp of al-Shabaab in an Unknown Location in Somalia

  • TRAC Incident Report: al-Furqan Radio (al-Shabaab) Release Interview with Official Spokesperson Sheikh Ali Mahmoud Raage, Somalia

  • TRAC Incident Report: Nine Chinese Gold Miners Killed by Reported Russian PMC Wagner Fighters at Chimbolo Mine, Bambari, Ouaka Prefecture, Central African Republic (CAR)

  • TRAC Incident Report: Belgian Citizen, Jean-Louis Denis, Suspected of Recruiting Jihadis, Deported to Belgium From Benin

  • TRAC Incident Report: Azawad Militia Pledge Allegiance to Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) Emir ag-Ghali a.k.a. Abu al-Fadil in Ménaka Region, Mali

  • TRAC Incident Report: Islamic State West Africa (ISWA/Wilayat Wasat Afriqiyah) Watch Islamic State Somalia (ISS) Video "God is The Guardian of the Believers" in Nigeria

  • TRAC Incident Report: Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) Rebels Kill Soldier and Wound Four in Bignona, Casamance, Ziguinchor Region, Senegal

  • TRAC Incident Report: South African Combat Paramedic, Gerco van Deventer, Kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2017 Smuggled to Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wa ul-Muslimin (JNIM) in Northern Mali

  • TRAC Incident Report: Catholic Priest Jacques Yaro Zerbo Executed by Suspected Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin(JNIM) Militants in Soro, Boucle du Mouhoun, Mouhoun Province, Burkina Faso

  • TRAC Incident Report: Islamic State (IS) Insiders Comment on Jordanian and Kenyan Prisoners Held by the Security Forces in Congo (DR)

  • TRAC Incident Report: Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) Pledge Allegiance (Bayah) to New Caliph Abu Al Hussain Al Hussaini Al Qurashi in Congo (DR)

  • TRAC Incident Report: Islamic State (IS) Insiders Again Predict Expansion into South Africa and Malawi

Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)

Portfolio available here.

  • Voices of Extremism: The Rise of Ala Nahjen Qaweem Foundation

  • In Translation: The Digital Growth of Bengali-Language At-Tamkeen Media

Afghanistan Security Institute (ASA)

  • Wagner’s Grip: How Russia’s Private Army Exploits CAR’s Resources and Fuels Conflict, available here.

NGO Intelligence

Highlights from my work at NGO Intelligence. Content produced for NGO Intelligence is confidential.

  • Serve as the in-house conflict and terrorism expert.

  • Provide expert intelligence analysis and consultations to NGO clients operating in conflict zones.

  • Conduct corporate due-diligence investigations and background checks for NGOs worldwide.

  • Manage HUMINT sources.

  • Brief decision-makers on findings and recommendations.

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