Stories of youths travelling to Syria to participate in the struggle against the Assad regime continue to make headlines in Belgium.
Visitors crossing from Turkey to Ras al-Ayn, a sleepy border town in eastern Syria, are now welcomed by the unlikeliest of characters: a Catholic member of what is considered an extremist Islamist rebel group.
The French operation to stop an Islamist rebel advance towards the Bamako, the capital of West African country Mali has won the hearts of many citizens of the city.
The Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar has experienced three anti-government protests so far this year; the latest, in mid-October, saw one police officer killed, roads blocked and shops closed across the capital, Zanzibar City.
Three Islamist armed groups controlling northern Mali have committed serious abuses against the local population while enforcing their interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, according to Human Rights Watch