![]() ![]() In the 1990s, terror attacks in Africa were somewhat episodic and limited to relatively well-defined local contexts (in Algeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Uganda, for example). For this reason they respect neither political nor geographical boundaries and, except perhaps for Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, the attackers do not articulate clear local political goals.įrom what societal wellspring does this deadly militancy arise? And how is Africa tackling it? The groups perpetrating these attacks are embryonic: their only definable characteristic is that they profess extremist Islamic tendencies. The attacks at the beginning of the year in Burkina Faso, in which 30 people died, reveal a new pattern in that the attackers - without any apparent base or network of support in the country, and with no clear strategic local goals - came from elsewhere and targeted distinct tourist attractions with no known connection to either government or the military. Since January about a dozen African countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, CÔte d’ivoire and Somalia, have suffered terror attacks in which thousands of civilians have been killed. Is terrorism becoming the dominant mode of conflict in Africa? This is a question many are asking following the recent surge in terror attacks across Africa.
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