How much of a threat is al-Qaeda in Africa now?

There is no evidence of any significant support for alQuaida in Africa. Except in a handful countries in Northern Africa. Most anti-western movements are in the middle-east or Arab countries. Boko Haram group in Northern Nigeria are nothing but a nuisance group calling for attention or trying to cause instability in the country. Nigerian Muslims and Christians in the South tend to get along. It is Northern Muslims causing all the troubles.

The Al Qaeda is always a quiet sect in Africa because of d terrain and ways of Africans which is not to tolerate terrorist by international standards. The Boko Haram sect in Nigeria is an example. But i think for a while the world will be calm but later will be worse. Africa should be prepared. Evil begets evil and so is good. Stakeholders must preach peace and show it to avert external influence on the citizens.

I think al-qaeda is not much of a threat to Africa or Africans as it is to Europe and America. The threat it poses to Africa and Africans is the targeted Euro-American institutions located in Africa. I think the spate of corruption in Africa is far threatening than al-qaeda.

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I think the citizens of Tanzania and Kenya are best placed to answer this question, although the Christian population in northern Nigeria is already paying a terrible price for the evil that radical Islam represents. And I say this as someone who has been very critical of successive US governments for their hypocritical policies in the Arab/Islamic world - although it has to be said that radical Islamists have never needed any such provocation to indulge their passion for violent intolerance and murderous hate.

It will be an agitating force to vent out the frustration of people whose Governments are not ruling to their Demand but only to satisfy their personal needs

Al Queda will be a greater threat on a continent like Africa due to the extreme differences between rich and poor. I remember my first time in Morocco, Casablanca in 2003 and you could feel the disequalities of the ones who made their money, fortunes and the attitude towards those who did'nt in a Muslim country.Just that is enough to attract a cause to Al Queda and there are many countries exactly the same.
Bullying, bad capitalism, extreme poverty is an ideal recipy for joining a terrorist organisation.

Africa has too many problems to focus on and Al-Qaida is not one of them. Al- Qaida is the monicker for a Frankenstein monster unleashed by the West to do their dirty work in Afghanistan and true to its character it went berserk. Africa, please focus on fighting poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy etc. and leave Al-Qaida to its manufacturers!

Ailing juggernauts like Nigeria will always present potential danger. Northern Muslim Nigeria has all portents of becoming a haven for terroism as it descends into chaos. Wherever there is a concentration of muslims there is always a high potential of the area becoming cauldron of murderous mayhem and chaos - breeding grounds for alqaeda. So the US needs to keep an eye on such countries.

Osama Bi Laden is dead and gone but it's worth knowing that he had some men with him whom he was training,who could even be more dangerous than him.
Of course all the rebel groups he was supporting any where in the world are weaken for a while, while they rearrange themselves and see who will take over that is why at this point the world should be extremely careful and be alert.

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al-Quaida, had been taking advantage of broken system and corrupt governments to install their network nations across the world knowing that african nations are all vulnerable to these ills make it a fertile ground for al-Quaida. Thus a threat

Although my comment is belated, I still feel compelled to say it any way. If the death of Bin Laden hasn't made the world safer immediately, it has at least stopped the machine that generated evil ideas which others held as religious truth. By extension, the likes of Boko Haram will realize they are not invincible after all. Evil doers, will be pursued as long as there are people on the other side of the coin.