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/in Defence, Strategy and National Security Program, Featured, Pacific Program, ReportPreventing and countering violent extremism in Africa: mining and Australia’s interests
/in Counter-terrorism Policy Centre, Defence, Strategy and National Security Program, International Program, ReportAustralia has commercial and strategic interests in helping to prevent and counter violent extremism in Africa. Australian mining companies are engaged across the continent in Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya and many other countries where there have been high-profile terrorist attacks and kidnappings of foreign nationals, including Australians. Those threats already affect the way Australian mining […]
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