(1) Whether his department has identified the increasing violent nature of conflicts throughout Africa; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, how does his department feed such information into the Government’s (a) foreign policy and (b) other policy-making bodies of this country; (2) whether the fragmentation and strong transnational characteristics of emergent insurgent groups and their ability to quickly change and form new alliances to suit their agenda affects his department’s ability to gather coherent intelligence information; if not, what are the reasons for his conclusion; if so, what are the relevant details?