Mark McNamee

Mark McNamee is an Intelligence Analyst for Sub-Saharan Africa at an international risk consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. region as well as a contract employee for the U.S. Army Combating Terrorism Center. He has an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), with concentrations in Russian & Eurasian Studies and International Economics, and studied Russian in St. Petersburg, Russia for two years.

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Militancy in the Niger Delta Becoming Increasingly Political – A Worry for 2015

11.14.2013 Mark McNamee

As oil bunkering, piracy, and kidnapping in the Niger Delta has continued or worsened over the course of the year, the general instability has increasingly...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Africa

No End in Sight: Violence in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea

03.08.2013 Mark McNamee

A string of high-profile kidnapping incidents in recent months in combination with an increase and geographic expansion of pipeline attacks in the Lagos region (outside...

Publication Terrorism Monitor West Africa

Piracy on the Rise in the Gulf of Guinea as Niger Delta Militants Move Offshore

07.26.2012 Mark McNamee

While the threat of piracy has gained international recognition off the coast of Somalia and farther out into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, pirate...

Publication Terrorism Monitor West Africa

The Life of Niger Delta Militant Henry Okah

04.29.2012 Mark McNamee

Henry Emomotimi Okah was born in 1965 and raised in Ikorodu, Lagos State, although his family’s ancestral home was in Baylesa State. The fourth child of a Navy...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Africa