27/07/2013 GMT

Zeinab Badawi talks to President Olusegun Obasajo, the former president of Nigeria, about the threat of terrorism present in so many parts of the African continent. Professor Assia Bensalah Alaoui, adviser and ambassador at large to the King of Morocco, and Tanzanian security expert Frannie Leautier, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation, discuss Boko Haram, Al Shabab and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and ask whether there is a new and growing threat of militancy that is linking all of Africa � north to south, east to west. What is giving rise to this jihadist threat and how best can it be confronted?