Terrorism as a factor geopolitical restructuring in the Sahel regiondoi:10.12700/jceeas.2024.4.3-4.274Kante, Mady IbrahimJournal of Central & Eastern European African Studies
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Acting-President of the G5 Sahel, also President of Burkina Faso, on Thursday asked Russia for enhanced strategic partnership for the fight against terrorism in the Sahel region. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré said this in his speech at the Russia-...
"The situation is deeply concerning in West Africa and the Sahel," where the IS affiliates and other terrorist groups intensified attacks, including against schools in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, Voronkov told the council. "As sub-Saharan Africa has become the epicentre of global terrorism, w...
African theatres of insecurity are also rapidly shifting. This includes the coastward expansion of Islamist militant groups in the Sahel, potential destabilisation in East and Central Africa due to the Sudan conflict, diplomatic flare-ups and violence in Great Lakes Region, an increase in military r...
acting coordinatingly under a same ideological umbrella. This chapter therefore provides an in-depth analysis of the root causes of terrorism and of the motives driving terrorist groups in the MENA region as well as its local and international consequences. The Middle East and North Africa regions...
TEHRAN, Aug. 21 (MNA) – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger petitioned the president of the UN Security Council on Tuesday to denounce the Ukrainian government's “open and assumed support for international terrorism” particularly in Africa’s Sahel region. ...
Lake Chad is situated in the Sahel region of Africa and straddles the border between the African savannahs and the deserts of West and Central Africa.Footnote15This extensive freshwater reservoir spans four countries: Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad, nestled amidst the encompassing sand dunes. ...
According to a 2024 study by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the global epicenter for terrorist attacks has moved from the Middle East to the Sahel region of Africa, which accounted for half of all terrorism-related deaths in 2023. Burkina Faso was the country most affected by terrorist...
Sahel’s Terrorism Problem(s) Al-Qaeda has begun increasingly replicating the tactics employed by its Salafi-jihadi rival, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS), in Africa’s Sahel region by relying on powerful affiliates like Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). It has done ...
Still, it is crucial to prevent the latter from turning into a plague wreaking havoc on regions with an availability of resources, leaving them depleted before moving on to neighboring territories, as trends in the Lake Chad region seem to suggest. Policy makers should enhance protection of ...