About the author(s):
Rogier is a researcher at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) and works at the Dutch National Prosecutor’s Office. He holds LL.M-degrees from Utrecht University and the University of Nottingham. Before taking up his current positions, he was an associate legal officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and a legal adviser at the International Humanitarian Law Division of the Netherlands Red Cross.
Rogier is an adjunct-lecturer at the Hague University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches international humanitarian law, and he co-convenes the Hague Initiative for Law and Armed Conflict.
Related to the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya:
The profile of Al-Shabab in Stanford University’s Mapping Militant Organizations project
The Washington Posts’s 10 things to know about Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels al-Shabab
Last year’s International Crisis Group report on The Kenyan Military Intervention in Somalia and briefing on Kenyan Somali Islamist Radicalisation
Other news:
A new Human Rights Watch report on CAR: “I Can Still Smell the Dead”: The Forgotten Human Rights Crisis in the Central African Republic (see here for the report, and here for the press release)
Also on CAR, the ICRC says: Central African Republic: Population caught up in armed violence
Website says al-Qaida’s North Africa branch replaces commanders killed in northern Mali
Nigerians Fear Boko Haram Violence Only to Escalate
Al Qaeda-Affiliate Chief Killed By Other Rebel Fighters In Syria
Healthcare workers in Syria need international protection
Myanmar said to hold National Dialogue by early 2014